From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 16:38:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC4F16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACC043D5E for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1ErHqg-0004mb-D6; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:38:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:39:04 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: "Daniel Goldberg" Message-ID: <20051227103904.6cb83f0e@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <001301c60b00$7d3fb330$c5ddfea9@storyopom7s0ow> References: <001301c60b00$7d3fb330$c5ddfea9@storyopom7s0ow> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc04d132e63b042ce765191ee19c03ce6f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quick Install Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:38:56 -0000 On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 "Daniel Goldberg" wrote: > Dear FreeBSD- > > I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. > > Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install > Question? > > > What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment > on a single HDD using GAG > (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a > resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) > > Thank you, > > Daniel Goldberg > > Daniel Franklin Goldberg > 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould