From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 9:44:26 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 CD7D137B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FB143F13 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0EHjFAg005523; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:45:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:53:39 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Aiello Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing win2k after Freebsd? References: <20030114164616.GA10758@submonkey.net> 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 Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:42:39AM -0500, Dan Aiello wrote: > >>Here's my situation. I already have a machine dual booting Win2k and >>freebsd. Originally, I installed Freebsd second, so that I could get the >>bootloader. However, now I'm going to repartition my windows drives, so >>I'll need to reinstall windows 2000. >> >>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. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message