From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 02:27:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAAD106568B for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:27:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xxjack12xx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com (mail-qy0-f176.google.com [209.85.221.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B2F8FC13 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so238149qyk.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:27:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cbmWYYcnjmcSrXgel9Xj1Fv57QuaZF8F47Ki7JKTUSU=; b=mIIEDr2c2JTphWeZpqKItzAy2Z1CRcAdUVbRHaucjywFs8R+lNibFvKTrchd/d6l94 qsccpHPOEmWgAKs7e58FIZE1lYij5PDSVZ2NVFumkwEGKWSjWz1KZaIqfp9h0Fz41oZE JYwlLGFSCuimsnU2hT75WpB+elYwTI9m5fQ8M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tjX6dP+GnqCnMeMfPyJvTcCkWhDZctAwRURFJuj960BolEOxOTS01h3HTwoO6G+jvk h6QhvNrDffpn/CJFuUlzsOHjiHzQII1oOOBNjuh4qwSKRRI3WYGPDXksG8szoQ+qdO0m iRhR3cZhuuWF7oQhmYeRoPbjC/34lbo9POaSU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.9.147 with SMTP id l19mr906132qcl.65.1256696335138; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:18:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com> References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com> From: "Jack L." Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:18:35 -0700 Message-ID: To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot 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: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:27:14 -0000 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman 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 >> 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}]? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >> >> > >