From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 06:48:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 94B8B37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40606.mail.yahoo.com (web40606.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 367F243F85 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cparker15@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030430134813.23954.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.180.153.5] by web40606.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:13 PDT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Parker To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <3EAFC918.5060701@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Introduction (was Re: NTFS Question) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: cparker@member.fsf.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:48:14 -0000 --- Bill Moran wrote: > As far as I know that document is still accurate. > > Why don't you make a 55G NTFS partition for Win2k and a 5G FAT partition that > can be shared between all OSes? Okay, here's my setup. Two EIDE 100 GB drives. I want to partition each in half. 50 GB - Drive 0, Partition 0: Windows 2000 Professional, maybe eventually Windows XP Professional 50 GB - Drive 0, Partition 1 (not including boot and swap): taHdeR GNU/Linux 8.0 Professional. 50 GB - Drive 1, Partition 0 (not including boot and swap): Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) 50 GB - Drive 1, Partition 1 (not including boot and swap, if applicable): FreeBSD 5.1 I'd love to have this kind of a multi-boot setup. I had a BIOS limitation so that my BIOS only supported up to 30-something GB. So, I had to install Windows 2000 on an old 2 GB drive until I could get my BIOS issue resolved. I eventually flashed my BIOS, so now I want to move Windows 2000 onto the first partition of the first drive (with 50 GB of space), and install the rest accordingly. I would like to be able to access all partitions from all other partitions, so if I'm in Windows 2000 and want to edit a config file for taHdeR 8.0 (maybe tested first with cygwin), it'll be easy, and I won't have to reboot to edit the file. Or, maybe I'll want to boot into FreeBSD to get the hang of it, but will still want to be able to go into the "My Documents" folder on the Windows 2000 partition to edit my "to do" plain text file to eliminate the things I have to do to get a stable system with my Un*x operating systems all on one machine. It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to create the first 50 GB partition with Windows 2000 using FAT32, so I might have to break down and use NTFS. (Unless anyone knows of a good disk-copying utility. I have created a 50 GB FAT32 partition with a Windows ME bootdisk using fdisk and format, but can't copy all of the files over from the 2 GB HDD to the 50 GB partition, even with xcopy. Fails when copying over StarOffice 6.0 directories.) Also, anyone know of a good bootloader that will be able to handle Windows 2000, two GNU/Linux distributions, and FreeBSD for multi-boot capability? Wow. That was a lot. Thanks for reading. ===== Christopher Parker Alumnus -- Youth Tech Entrepreneurs Associate Member #795 -- Free Software Foundation Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com