Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:42:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Bob Schwartz <bob@bschwartz.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, 'Bill Moran' <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Subject: RE: Questions on first-time installation Message-ID: <20061108083717.V72340@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <001a01c70282$13eb9a00$0500a8c0@c1> References: <001a01c70282$13eb9a00$0500a8c0@c1>
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Bob Schwartz wrote: > ... at least as it is desribed in the DELL > docs and bios... Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot a freebsd install for you. Dell usually ship their machines with a small partition at the front of the drive (at least, they did last time I received one). That partition is at an odd offset and didn't agree with the FBSD partition editor: I found this out the hard way. Things may have changed since then; I usually nuke the dell partition anyway. jan PS. I should say that my bad experience with the partition editor is a few years old; I've not tried again recently with new Dell kit. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Axioms speak louder than words.
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