Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:47:33 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Subject: Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp Message-ID: <14985.63.104.35.130.1055854053.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20030616211505.GB36733@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030616204048.GA3309@speedy.unibe.ch> <20030616211505.GB36733@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman said: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > >> Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed >> up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing >> FreeBSD slices intact. Same goes for the MBR, of course. >> >> And yes, I will back up my data in any case, but I'd still hate it if >> I had to set up my whole system again. > I just did a similar dual-boot machine this weekend. Box has a single 35GB IDE disk. Used FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE to delete old micosoft partitions, create a 12GB UFS slice and 27GB "FAT" slice. Installed and config'd fbsd on UFS. Then did Win2K on the FAT (converted to NTFS) slice. I use GRUB as bootloader as Win2K overwrites boot sector. The whole process is quite straight forward and safe. I've done 1/2 dozen similar configurations in the last 6 months with a mix of FreeBSD/Win2K-XP. HTH, Doug
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