Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:45:20 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Aiello <aielloda@cs.purdue.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing win2k after Freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0301162042380.16957-100000@ector.cs.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com>
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> >>I know there's got to be a way to make this work and keep the freebsd boot > >>loader. I've heard there's a way to tell a windows installation not to > >>install a boot loader. > > > > Windows 2000 won't touch your boot loader, IIRC. > > And even if it does, you can boot of a FreeBSD install CD, got to the fdisk > section and tell it to write changes (without changing anything) and you'll > get the option to replace the FreeBSD boot loader. > > Warning on this, exactly which buttons you select determines whether or not > the bootloader gets installed. I did it like 3 times or something before it > worked the last time I had to, but the good news is that it never did anything > wrong. For the curious, Windows 2000 _does_ overwrite the boot sector. Also, I was unable to make FreeBSD install the boot loader. I did every possible combination of things, and every time it _seemed_ like it was going to install the boot loader, but it never did until I went through an install process... :( Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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