From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 8:42:45 2003 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 0EEE437B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from newman.cs.purdue.edu (newman.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E30743F75 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aielloda@cs.purdue.edu) Received: from ector.cs.purdue.edu (IDENT:1@ector.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.10]) by newman.cs.purdue.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6/PURDUE_CS-2.0) with ESMTP id h0EGggP25495 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:42:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (aielloda@localhost) by ector.cs.purdue.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6/PURDUE_CS-2.0) with ESMTP id h0EGger24579 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:42:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:42:39 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Aiello To: Subject: installing win2k after Freebsd? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's my situation. I already have a machine dual booting Win2k and freebsd. Originally, I installed Freebsd second, so that I could get the bootloader. However, now I'm going to repartition my windows drives, so I'll need to reinstall windows 2000. I know there's got to be a way to make this work and keep the freebsd boot loader. I've heard there's a way to tell a windows installation not to install a boot loader. I was also thinking there should be a way where I can create a boot disk for freebsd and then after windows installs its boot loader, boot to freebsd with the boot disk and re-install that bootloader. However, these are all vague memories, so if anybody could help me out with some specific details, that would help a lot, since that's the only reason I haven't reformatted yet... Any help would be much appreciated. I'm not on the mailing list, so please reply to me also... thanks, dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message