From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 4:59:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uranus.interscope.ro (unknown [193.226.188.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A283137B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by URANUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:56:43 +0200 Message-ID: From: Stefan KORONKA To: 'Philip Hallstrom' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Windows 2000 co-existing with FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:56:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi - > (I've searched the lists and found nothing so here goes...) > > I've dual booted before with win98/freebsd without problems, but win2k > seems a bit different... I've got a 10GB drive with 2GB and 8GB > partitions (in that order). I installed win2k on the 8GB > part (it also > installed some files on the 2GB part -- ntldr, etc...). I > did it this > way to avoid the 8GB boundary. > > According to win2k everything I do is on "D:". not quite "everything": you still have the first 2GB under a partition named "C:" - where ntldr and other winboot stuff resides. according with my experiences, at the install of an nt/win2k sys, it try to fill ALL the partitions it can see: that is, even if you said it to install on "D:", it still put some files on "C:", because from there it "knows" how to boot (is that some of the m$soft's policy, something like "once you installed, you can't get rid of it ?! I guess it is ...) > > Today I decided to try installing FreeBSD... so I put in the > boot disks > and re-typed the partition, wrote it, installed the boot hehe .. you destroyed it's "C:" partition ... you made it *very* angry :) > manager. Then I > quit cause I needed to get back into windows for work (*sigh*) and > couldn't. the boot manager didn't see anything but the > FreeBSD partition. > > Well, after mucking around a lot I got rid of the boot > partitition, but > still no windows 2000. I finally booted the CD in rescue mode and > formatted C: (2GB) and copied over the handful of files it > needed. Now > win2k boots. lucky you :) > > > Anyway, a kind of scary experience :) yeah, i know ... > > > So... can someone tell me how to get the two to co-exist? > And is it going > to even be possible to do it this way or am I going to need > to put win2k > first, then freebsd? Also, once I do this, win2k will think it's on > "C:" won't it? What all will that mess up since it now thinks it's on > "D:"? > > Thanks! > well, i don't see any easy solution for your situation. you can do 2 things: 1. backup your data, and reinstall win2k. make sure that you don't have more than one "visible" (fat/ntfs) partition when you install it. you can install win2k first (let's say, a 7.9 GB partition), and FreeBSD second, or you can install BSD first, install win2k second, and (re)install some boot manager so that you can boot BSD too. 2. get a second harddisk, and install FreeBSD on it. stefan > -philip > > > > 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