From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 10: 0:32 2002 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 554B937B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mahajan.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-61.maa.sify.net [210.214.66.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC2043ED1 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) Received: (from shantanu@localhost) by mahajan.homeunix.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBGKtD1E000981; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:25:13 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mahajan.homeunix.net: shantanu set sender to shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org using -f Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:25:13 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: Mike McGranahan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Message-ID: <20021216205513.GA949@mahajan.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Mike McGranahan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 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 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +++ Mike McGranahan [freebsd] [16/12/02 05:06 -0800]: | Hello, |=20 | I would like to know what is the best way to dual boot FreeBSD 4.7 and | Windows XP? I found this information ( | http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=3D7963936&list=3D151 ) reg= arding | how to use the Windows XP loader, and this information on GRUB ( | http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Booting.html#Booting ) though th= ere | is no mention of Windows XP. |=20 | I have two hard drives in my system, a 20GB which currently has Windows X= P, | and a 10GB which is empty. I was considering making the 10GB drive common | storage for both OS' as FAT32. I would then move my data from the 20GB | drive to the 10GB, partition the 20GB drive and install FreeBSD alongside | Windows XP. Besides setting up the bootloader, would there be any FreeBSD | problems with this configuration? In what ways could I set up dual-booti= ng | for this configuration, and which method is best? |=20 | Alternately, I could just install FreeBSD on the 10GB drive, leaving the | 20GB/Windows XP drive untouched. In what ways can I set up dual-booting = for | this alternate configuration, and which method is best? |=20 | Are there any online documents that address this, or would be insightful? |=20 | Thank you for you help. |=20 | Mike McGranahan |=20 | Worst case scenario, I could use the alter the BIOS to control which drive | boots. |=20 | ------------------------------ why not try www.xosl.org? Regards, Shantanu --=20 # ls "/usr/lib/common sense" ls: /usr/lib/common sense: No such file or directory --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9/j2x8NTC7RN6/Z4RAlEOAJ9qyhVWU/2F39miXDmY0khL3OjZ+wCffqoC vyx9UyjJhkBMfYOwFp5/O5M= =kaI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message