From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 13:57:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFD537B50F for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA789088; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:57:35 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com> References: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:58:09 -0400 To: dpoland@execpc.com, jfb@visi.com From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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