Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:50:14 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: James Felix Black <jfb@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: W2k and FreeBSD redux Message-ID: <39903A46.34EB2BB7@mitre.org> References: <q5qr97zyak6.fsf@isis.visi.com>
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James Felix Black wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm still stuck trying to get W2k and FreeBSD to play nice on my > machine. I would like not to have to pay for a partition/boot > management product if I can help it; I would boot off of floppy first, > but I can't seem to find instructions anywhere on how to create a > custom boot floppy. Are there such instructions anywhere? I'll > happily RTFM, if I can find the FM. There doesn't seem to be anything > in the Handbook. > > W2k and FreeBSD have separate disks to themselves, and both are > located below this mysterious 1024 cylinder boundary. Does that make > a difference? My work system is FreeBSD (4.0-STABLE) so I have access > to a box to futz with (the FreeBSD installation at home is > inaccessible.) Have you tried something like xosl? I think if you stick it on the disk where FreeBSD lives, and then set your bios to point to that disk, you might be able to get FreeBSD and Win2K to coexist. http://www.xosl.org -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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