Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:24:03 -0400 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Joshua Lokken <joshualokken@attbi.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release Message-ID: <A9A7A965-6BC4-11D7-8260-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <20030411004305.GA68310@joloxbox.joshualokken.com>
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Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with the boot manager. Its working great! 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)
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