Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:58:09 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: dpoland@execpc.com, jfb@visi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <v04210105b5b4d23a68a8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com> References: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com>
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At 1:52 PM -0500 8/7/00, dpoland@execpc.com wrote: >This may not help you, but I gave up and bought PartitionMagic. >It comes with BootMagic that replaces both WinNT/FBSD boot >managers and allows multi-os booting. One reason I choose this >was because I failed to create a / partion for FBSD that was >under 1024 cylinder barrier. I had to re-partition my HD and >didn't want to re-install Win2k and all the junk that goes >along with it. My partion scheme turned out to be: > FAT16: 50MB - BootMagic needs a DOS partion to > store it's stuff > UFS: 50MB - / partition for FBSD 4.0 > NTFS: 8GB - just barely enough room ;) > UFS: 3GB - /usr /var /swap for FBSD Another option is PowerBoot from http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/pboot.html It has worked quite well for me, and does not require a separate partition. On the other hand, I don't know if it would work for booting something past the 1024-cylinder mark. In my case, I have used it for booting a variety of Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and OpenBSD systems. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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