Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:24:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Blair Wagner <blair.wagner@cci-triad.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-OS install of FreeBSD: HELP! Message-ID: <3D2C8A07.1040506@owt.com> References: <200207101811.g6AIB6026588@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Blair Wagner wrote: >> >> >>>Hello guru's, >>> >>>Please help me install FreeBSD on my PC, co-resident with Win2k. >>> >>>I'm preparing to install FreeBSD v4.6 on my AMD 1.4Ghz Athlon at home. >>>However, this machine currently has Windows 2000 Pro installed - using >>>all of the 40GB EIDE hard disk space. >>> >>>... [Lots cut out] >>> >>>In the perfect world, I'd like to shrink the Win2K partition to 20GB, >>>and allocate the remaining 20GB to FreeBSD on my one and only EIDE hard >>>disk drive. However, the documentation suggests I'm going to have >>>trouble. I do NOT wish to change the BIOS setting for ">1024cyl" or >>>"LBA" each time I boot. I don't know how to boot Win2K into DOS mode to >>>use the FBSDBOOT.EXE. >>> > >>You are reading old docs. I only have one machine that has a drive >>smaller than 8.4GB, which is cylinder 1024 with LBA turned on. The >>rest are on 20-80GB drives and half of them are installed starting >>around 15-20GB in on the drive. >> >> > > YES. I wish someone who really knows about the insides of current > machines, BIOS, boot blocks, devices and even Microsloth stuff would > completely rewrite the documentation to this part of things. Even in > new editions of FreeBSD books I have been searching the information > still talks only about old methods and limits that just by accident I > have discovered to be no longer valid or meaningful (but I don't know > what the real limits and requirements are now). Nik from FreeBSD-docs asked the same thing but none of the writers volunteered. Historically, the problem disappeared around FreeBSD-4.1 and we have progressed a long ways since then. You may have a lot of people that understand 2 of 3 points and aren't comfortable writing something covering everything. For example, I chose to install FreeBSD on the boot HD because I didn't have to deal with /boot/boot0, which I found confusing. If you include a copy of /boot/boot1 on your c-drive, there isn't any problem adding it to the boot.ini used by ntldr. I typically never have an OS on the primary boot partition of a multi-boot system. On these multi-boot systems, that partition in windows terms is FAT-32 because you can write to it from FreeBSD and is used to pass data from FreeBSD to the other OSes. Kent > > So, please please, someone make my wish come true. (and also put > the notice of publishing where we can't miss it. If it is really > good information and understandably written, I would even spend some > of my own money on it) > > ////jerry > > >>>So, using the tools on the 4.6 dist: >>> >>>1) can I put the FreeBSD "bootable" partition out 20GB, assuming the >>>cylinder # of the beginning of the partition is >1024??? ...and use the >>>BootEasy boot manager? >>> >>[more chopped off] >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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