From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 13:31:28 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 1112316A4D0 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DCC43FAF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hAKLVLu12863; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:31:21 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: ogautherot@freesurf.fr, Jud Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:31:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <002701c3af33$d7ccec30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> <20031120131500.6DA55E4A01@mail.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20031120131500.6DA55E4A01@mail.freesurf.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311201331.20730.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:31:28 -0000 On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:14 am, ogautherot@freesurf.fr wrote: > As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a > separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if > your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times. > > What do you need the 10GB FAT32 partition for? (I suspect the same purpose > but with respect to Windows...?!?) If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to from=20 =46reeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of mutli-boo= t=20 machines and I almost always have that much in one partition that is FAT32. =46WIW, all of my multi-boot XP/FreeBSD have the main FreeBSD slice on the= =20 primary master. You can add /boot/boot0 to your c-drive and boot.ini and 5.= x=20 or 4.x boots like a charm using ntldr. My c-drive only contains data and do= es=20 not contain an OS. Kent > > Jud =E9crit: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:59:29 +0800, wrot= e: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I read somewhere before that there were partition or boot problems > > > after installing 5.1 beside winXP. Has anyone been able to do this > > > successfully? Is there something not obvious that I need to set/tweak > > > while during sysinstall? This partition has seen several versions of > > > Mandrake and Redhat (Fedora is a flap, btw, IMO), and they all do it > > > automatically as if assuming that users DO install their OS beside so= me > > > Windows. But I have grown tired of the linux fad/hype and just wanna > > > try my favorite server OS on it to see how it does too on the desktop. > > > But at the same time, I need my XP very much. > > > > > > My 40G hardisk is currently partitioned like this..: 512MB Windows > > > swap > > > > > > | 512MB Linux/Unix swap | 20G NTFS | 10G FAT32 | Rest =3D Linux/Unix > > > > > > Thanks in advance =3D) > > > > > > chael > > > > Everything should work just fine. Read the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site > > re dual booting with Win as well as extensive prior discussions in this > > list with detailed advice. (You can search for the latter at > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/>.) > > > > Jud > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html