From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 17:45:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCDD37B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:45:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from newman.cs.purdue.edu (newman.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968B943F1E for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aielloda@cs.purdue.edu) Received: from ector.cs.purdue.edu (IDENT:1@ector.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.10]) by newman.cs.purdue.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6/PURDUE_CS-2.0) with ESMTP id h0H1jMP23687 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:45:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (aielloda@localhost) by ector.cs.purdue.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6/PURDUE_CS-2.0) with ESMTP id h0H1jLL17025 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:45:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:45:20 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Aiello To: Subject: Re: installing win2k after Freebsd? In-Reply-To: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > >>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