Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:15:55 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Chris Landauer <cal@rushe.aero.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - is it possible? Message-ID: <3C7DCB1B.3060607@owt.com> References: <200202280512.g1S5C3001443@rushe.aero.org>
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Chris Landauer wrote: > hihi, all - > > i am trying to put freebsd 4.5 on a large (80gb) disk, with a dual boot with > windows 2000 professional (on the other 80gb disk, though i'd really prefer it > to be on only a small part of that disk) > > i did all the right stuff with the CD (i've installed freebsd a few dozen > times before), and tried to write the MBR (master boot record) properly from > the freebsd install, but the machine always boots into windows - i wonder if > w2000pro squirrels away a copy of the MBR and restores it before booting > somehow, and even before shutting down - moreover, ALL of the disk partition > fiddling programs failed because w2000pro said that disk fiddling was not > allowed > > do any of the disk partition fiddling programs work on w2000pro (with a fat32 > file system, NOT ntfs)? can i preserve windows at all? or must i make windows > go away completely before my new machine will boot into freebsd? If you want to share files with W2K, you need a fat32 partition somewhere. You can read NTFS but not write to it. As far as booting them, all you have to do is copy /boot/boot1 to your "c" drive and add it to the boot.ini. Kent > > more later, > cal > > Dr. Christopher Landauer > Aerospace Integration Science Center > The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 > P.O.Box 92957 > Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA > cal@aero.org, +1 (310) 336-1361 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com 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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