Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:38:55 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo@ieee.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release Message-ID: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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+++ Lucas Holt [freebsd] [10-04-03 22:24 -0400]: | Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with | the boot manager. Its working great! also you can try http://www.xosl.org Regards, Shantanu | | On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: | | >* Lucas Holt (luke@foolishgames.com) wrote: | >==> What is the best approach to dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD? | >==> Specifically I want to know what to do about the boot manager? I | >don't | >==> want to damage Windows XP in the process. | >==> | >==> My system currently has Windows XP Home edition on a 30 gig | >partition | >==> and another 9 gigs or so free at the end. | >==> | >==> I have read some newsgroups, but some people are saying that its | >not a | >==> good idea to use the nt boot loader. | >==> | >==> Lucas Holt | >==> Luke@FoolishGames.com | > | >Hi Luke | > | >I would go ahead and [back up your data and] install FreeBSD. I'm | >assuming you want to stick it on the 9GB free space? No problem, | >just install the FreeBSD boot loader when sysinstall asks you--it'll | >boot 'em both, although you may get a display something like: | > | >F1 FreeBSD | >F2 ??? | > | >F2 in this case will be WinXP. | > | >HTH, | > | >-- | >Joshua | > | > | | Lucas Holt | Luke@FoolishGames.com | ________________________________________________________ | FoolishGames.com | JustJournal.com | | "The next generation of interesting software will be made on a | Macintosh, not an IBM PC." | | -- Bill Gates (unconfirmed quote) | | | ------------------------------ -- It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right. PGP keyID : 137AFD9E PGP keyID fingerprint : C7DA 3350 1DEA F371 37DC D92A F0D4 C2ED 137A FD9E
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