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XP, FreeBSD, whatever...

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jcontonio

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I have WinXP installed on a 20 GB Maxtor Drive.

I am going to buy another drive and install FreeBSD on it, because once I buy my G4, I am turning my Athlon 1.2 into a development server.

When I install FreeBSD, will it ask me where to install the MBR? Will it be easy to dual-boot this system? Any help would be great, any "you're stupid" need not reply.

Thanks.
 
FreeBSD will give you 3 options for the boot manager: 1. install in MBR 2. Install on first slice (first partition type thing) 3. Dont bother. I think, its been a while so I could be wrong. I have never used it with an NTish OS so I cant say how it will react exactly, but it shouldnt be too hard to get it working.


*No "You're stupids" from me... yet 😉
 
Thanks a lot.

I am going to try to do it on the /boot partition I am guessing...I just don't know what I'm supposed to do after that, will Win XP's boot loader have the FreeBSD install listed? Or will I be put into Lilo?
 
Just make a partition with partition magic(if you need a .. preview of this program, PM me) and save it for a BSD slice. Then in BSD, just specify the partition you made.
 
XP's bootloader doesn't automatically add FreeBSD to the boot menu. You have to do that with third party utilities. There is a nifty little freeware utility that can do this but I just can't remember the name 🙁

Hope someone else will pop in while I try to recall my memory...

<edit> Hurray for Google: BootPart</edit>
 
Running FreeBSD and Win2K on my workstation at work.

Installed 2K first, the FreeBSD with the bootloader, now I can boot 2K as well as FreeBSD from the FreeBSD bootloader.

This is with FreeBSD 4.2 BTW.
 


<< Thanks a lot.

I am going to try to do it on the /boot partition I am guessing...I just don't know what I'm supposed to do after that, will Win XP's boot loader have the FreeBSD install listed? Or will I be put into Lilo? >>



There is no LILO in FreeBSD. FreeBSD uses its own bootloader.
 

That sounds really easy. I'll just do that. I'm guessing it should be the same as using Win XP instead of 2K.
So I shoud install the boot loader into the MBR? Overright the Windows One?



<< Running FreeBSD and Win2K on my workstation at work.

Installed 2K first, the FreeBSD with the bootloader, now I can boot 2K as well as FreeBSD from the FreeBSD bootloader.

This is with FreeBSD 4.2 BTW. >>

 


<< That sounds really easy. I'll just do that. I'm guessing it should be the same as using Win XP instead of 2K.
So I shoud install the boot loader into the MBR? Overright the Windows One?

<<

Personally that is what I would do. I love FreeBSD's boot manager. Its pretty simple, almost always picked up every OS I had installed, and always worked correctly (for me). And hitting F1 or enter is much easier than typing out what OS you want to boot 😛
 
I use the NT loader for multi-booting FreeBSD among other OSes. I used BootPart and haven't had a problem since.

I tend to use NT Loader because any MS will just take over the MBR anyway, for better or for worse.

-SUO
 
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