Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:37:28 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net>, Miroslav Pendev <shadow@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multibooting FBSD, WinME and WinXP -- how do you do it? Message-ID: <TS2Y1TZWQ6HGONLTQNHLIL86VPID.3d1df058@sparky> In-Reply-To: <20020629024652.GA17009@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>
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6/28/2002 10:46:52 PM, Miroslav Pendev <shadow@CPE0004761ac738- CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:04:02PM -0700, Brian M. Kincaid wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I need some help in setting up a multiboot environment with FreeBSD, WinME, >> and WinXP. I have separate disks available to be dedicated to each operating >> system. >Hi Brian! > >I have triple boot Win2000 - Win XP and FreeBSD 4.6 on my work system. >I need XP and 4.6 basicaly for tests and builds :-> > >I would recommend you to install WinME first - on FAT32 partition, >then Win XP, on other FAT32 partition and then FreeBSD 4.6 ;-) >with the boot manager!!! >Just be shure to choose to install the boot manager on the booting disk. > >If you do not need some NTFS special 'crap' you can live with FAT32. >FAT32 is not good for large drives - but anyways... you can access it from >FreeBSD. I'm quad-booting W2K, Win98, FreeBSD and QNX. I prefer NTFS for W2K - the stability is excellent. To move files between FreeBSD and W2K I use Win98 as an intermediary. If that feels too slow and clumsy to you, then take Miroslav's advice to use FAT32 for WinXP. Read MS's knowledge base regarding dual-booting XP and ME - that will likely be far more difficult than adding FreeBSD to the mix. You should be able to use XP's or FreeBSD's bootloader to boot all three operating systems. Regarding how to use XP's bootloader to do this, read the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site. I happen to think grub (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub) is a great bootloader. It's free, and you can configure your boot menu just the way you like it. Read the grub documents very carefully first, however. After all, if you mess up your bootloader, you've got an unbootable PC (at least for a while, until you recover it - but why not be careful and avoid that?). If you want a product that just does everything for you, Partition Magic with BootMagic is often recommended. I use and like BootItNG (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com), which is smaller, less expensive, and IMHO very high quality. (I'd actually prefer grub, but grub doesn't grok my RAID-0 array.) Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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