Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:27:30 -0400 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za> Subject: Re: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020518132440.04760ff8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <000d01c1fb84$ce1fcd10$145c1f41@un1x> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020514093706.0135e0d0@192.96.48.11>
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At 15:18 2002/05/14 -0500, Nick Lozinsky wrote: >---- Original Message ----- >From: "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za> >To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:43 AM >Subject: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro > > > > Hi > > > > I want setup my new machine to dual boot between Windows XP Pro and >FreeBSD > > and I thought I would just check with the list for any tips. Unfortunately > > I have to support Winbloze Lusers so I don't have much choice. Do I >install > > WinXP first and then FreeBSD or vice versa ? Do I use the FreeBSD Boot > > Manager or should I just use the WinXP Boot Manager and alter the boot.ini > > file to include a FreeBSD bootup ? > > > >Hi, > >Install WinXP first, then BSD. You can use whichever bootloader you want, >but the FreeBSD loader will give you stuff like this: > >F1 - ??? >F3 - FreeBSD Another easy way is to install, once FreeBSD is up and running, Grub from the ports. FreeBSD's Grub seems to be a bit better than most Linux versions--my RH version of Grub for example, won't boot another distro running devfs while FreeBSD's version had no trouble. I have a page on Grub for newbies at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/grub.html which, though aimed more atthe beginner to Linux, might be a reasonable introduction. Hope this helps Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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