From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 19:26:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E12C37B417 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1150 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2002 03:26:18 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 3 Apr 2002 03:26:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3CAA76A3.3080502@cream.org> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 04:27:31 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Anagnostakis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Anagnostakis wrote: > is ti safe enough to install freebsd on a machine which has windows 2000 > installed? It is completely safe........ so long as you know what you are doing :-) The machine that I'm writing this on dual-boots FreeBSD and Windows 2000. You need to have some spare, unpartitioned space on a drive in your machine. This can be the same or a different drive from your Windows 2000 installation. If your current Windows installation uses your whole drive, and you don't want to add another, you will need to look into resizing that partition which is something I don't know much about. When you have some spare space, you can simply follow the installation instructions given in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ being careful that when you are using FDISK to create your FreeBSD slice you don't overwrite your Windows drive. Then you install the FreeBSD Boot Manager on your Windows drive and next time you boot, you will magically be asked which OS you want to boot! Basically you should read the installation part of the FreeBSD Handbook. Please feel free to e-mail me back with any further questions on this, as I have done it several times myself. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message