Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:15:07 -0500 From: "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com> To: "Jud" <Jud@operamail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Quad Boot, Multiple Partitions, Two Drives Possible? Message-ID: <000e01c194b4$de4ff250$2300a8c0@AFI> References: <3C3429EA@operamail.com>
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Thanks Jud! Anyone else using some of the core hardware components that I am planning on? If so, please post any tips or troubles that you had. Epox 8KHA+ w/ 10/11 BIOS X2 IBM 40GB 60GXP HD's Asus V7100 32MB GeForce2MX 400 512MB Crucial DDR Mem Netgear FA310TX NIC LG 16x10x40 CD-R Pioneer 10X DVD Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound card I plan to run a variation of X-windows with my install. Thanks, -Dillion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jud" <Jud@operamail.com> To: "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com>; <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: RE: Quad Boot, Multiple Partitions, Two Drives Possible? > >===== Original Message From "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com> ===== > [snip] > >Right now, I have 8 partitions on Drive 0, a mix of NTFS and FAT32, with a > >tri-boot of Win98SE, Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, without any problems. > > > >Drive 1 has two partitions right now (just set it up), starting with a 10GB > >and > >20GB FAT32. would like to install FeeBSD on my second hard drive, to keep > >it away from my Windows world and I ould still like to be able to use some > >sort > >of boot manager/OS selecter. > > > >I have since this GRUB port fly by on the list, but do I need to install the > >OS first > >and sort of install Grub after so it recognizes that I have multiple OSes? > [snip] > > You have the idea - install FreeBSD first, install the GRUB port, then set it > up as your boot manager. Read the documentation carefully and have the > commands you'll issue to grub and your menu.lst configuration file (that's an > "L," not a "one," after the period) prepared and written/printed ahead of > time. Before anything, though, back up the data you don't want to lose to > some storage medium that won't be affected by this operation. GRUB isn't > difficult, but with that many partitions/OSs, you naturally want to take care > when playing with your MBR(s). > > Jud > > P.S. While I can't certify that all your hardware will work with FreeBSD, I > have some similar stuff (DVD, memory, graphics card, earlier generation IBM > HDs), and it all works. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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