Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:18:35 -0700 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot Message-ID: <ab581e310910271918l189ea371l2c6f745083c98f75@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com> References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> <ab581e310910271914w4b3b9971u7f6a2ab68a2d74f4@mail.gmail.com> <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jack L. wrote:
>>
>> I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just
>> installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot
>> manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD
>>
>
> I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-)
>>
Oh, then you can just boot up the freebsd cd and then just install the
freebsd boot manager after installing windows 7.
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman
>> <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition...
>>> when
>>> I installed vista I had to =C2=A0do some =C2=A0boot manager tricks (bot=
h before and
>>> after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use
>>> EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's
>>> "magic"
>>> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues
>>> and/or
>>> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting?
>>>
>>> Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista
>>> partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/o=
r
>>> /etc/fstab =C2=A0after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g
>>> instead
>>> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on
>>> RC2
>>> right now}]?
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