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On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 04:27:31 +0100
Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> wrote:

> John Anagnostakis wrote:
> > is ti safe enough to install freebsd on a machine which has
> > windows 2000 installed?
> 
> It is completely safe........ so long as you know what you are doing
> :-)
> 
> The machine that I'm writing this on dual-boots FreeBSD and Windows
> 2000.
> 
> You need to have some spare, unpartitioned space on a drive in your 
> machine. This can be the same or a different drive from your Windows
> 2000 installation. If your current Windows installation uses your
> whole drive, and you don't want to add another, you will need to
> look into resizing that partition which is something I don't know
> much about.
> 
> 

  Also, at least at present, FreeBSD will need a primary (as opposed
to a logical drive in an extended partition) partition.  (That's one
that I found out the hard way. ) :)

Scott Robbins

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