Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:43:05 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshualokken@attbi.com> To: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release Message-ID: <20030411004305.GA68310@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> In-Reply-To: <FB951032-6BA7-11D7-A097-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> References: <FB951032-6BA7-11D7-A097-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com>
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* Lucas Holt (luke@foolishgames.com) wrote: ==> What is the best approach to dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD? ==> Specifically I want to know what to do about the boot manager? I don't ==> want to damage Windows XP in the process. ==> ==> My system currently has Windows XP Home edition on a 30 gig partition ==> and another 9 gigs or so free at the end. ==> ==> I have read some newsgroups, but some people are saying that its not a ==> good idea to use the nt boot loader. ==> ==> Lucas Holt ==> Luke@FoolishGames.com Hi Luke I would go ahead and [back up your data and] install FreeBSD. I'm assuming you want to stick it on the 9GB free space? No problem, just install the FreeBSD boot loader when sysinstall asks you--it'll boot 'em both, although you may get a display something like: F1 FreeBSD F2 ??? F2 in this case will be WinXP. HTH, -- Joshua
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