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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:30:09 +0100
From:      Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
To:        SweeTLeaF <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Question on Multi OSes
Message-ID:  <wHBYyxBR$Ll9Ewy9@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <333246938.20020927150941@myrealbox.com>
References:  <332301c2665f$71627780$0e6417ac@norada.com> <333246938.20020927150941@myrealbox.com>

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Someone, quite probably SweeTLeaF, once wrote:
>What i would like to find out is how to have xp on its own drive and
>freebsd on its own drive and be able to boot either such as i do now.
>I saw a device that connected to each drive and jumps over the drive to
>make it primary, sec.etc... to boot the drive you wanted but i don't have
>the money for it now so i need to find out how to achieve this with
>the freebsd boot manager.

Just install XP on the first drive and FreeBSD on the second.

During FreeBSD's FDISK stage select the first drive, then don't change
any settings but how w to exit and write the MBR.  Select FreeBSD's
bootmanager and carry on installing FreeBSD normally.

Kevin
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kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk

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