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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:10:31 -0500
From:      Eric <eric@savaka.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: winxp and freebsd
Message-ID:  <421BBBE7.9000202@savaka.com>
In-Reply-To: <6e01203b05022215006a221d68@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> <6e01203b050222145968985bb8@mail.gmail.com> <6e01203b05022215006a221d68@mail.gmail.com>

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Thanks --- any recommendations on formatting and partitioning my hdd 
prior to the OS installs?

Tyler Gee wrote:

>"...you would have no way to access FBSD."
>
>Except with a boot disk, as Grant points out.
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>-wtgee
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>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:59:30 -0700, Tyler Gee <geekout@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>You always have to install Windows first if you are going to dual boot
>>with anything.  The reason is that Windows will automatically rewrite
>>your Master Boot Record without asking so if you did FBSD first and
>>then Windows you would have no way to access FBSD.
>>
>>-wtgee
>>
>>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:49:26 -0500, Eric <eric@savaka.com> wrote:
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>>>I want to configure my pc to dual boot winxp and freebsd.  Should I
>>>install winxp first?  Or freebsd first.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any advice.
>>>
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