Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:56:39 +0000 From: "Siraj Shaikh" <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl, wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Subject: Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot Message-ID: <3b2ddd940801290856r5be3825bq36132618ceb82921@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479F3A8E.9000901@student.utwente.nl> References: <3b2ddd940801281410o77b87c2ajbfbee2f5f276b934@mail.gmail.com> <479E5903.100@student.utwente.nl> <6e9d2bb40801281539l2e983011pff27c17073e6a8e5@mail.gmail.com> <479F1BBB.2020008@student.utwente.nl> <479F1C56.8010401@gmail.com> <479F34F8.2070501@student.utwente.nl> <20080129152311.T2946@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <479F3A8E.9000901@student.utwente.nl>
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On 29/01/2008, Alphons Fonz van Werven <a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you > >> actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? > > > you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD. > > Ah, ok. > > Not a logical choice for a fresh install though... > > Alphons (still at war with vidcontrol) > > -- > VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware > OK, wanted to thank you all fo your helkp, and just finally, repeat the steps (just to clarify amongst all this discussion). This is what I did 1) started with an empty disk, and used the Vista recovery CD to put the Vista image onto the laptop 2) then installed freebsd (6.3) from CD and left MBR untouched 3) on restart, was only seeing FreeBSD, so used fdisk to makr the Vista partition active 4) finally booted up with Vista and then used easyBCD to add the FreeBSD partition entry to the boot record (its call it NeoLinux for some reason - could I change it to call it FreeBSD? Not that it matters so much) 5) finally rebooted to have a choice between FreeBSD and Vista - tried both and they both work fine! Thank you again all! One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here? I did choose for "Windows X" during the FreeBSD setup - shall I do a port upgrade? Thanks
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