From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 02:16:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F1F1065692 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:16:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com (mail-yw0-f178.google.com [209.85.211.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2D68FC08 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh8 with SMTP id 8so311739ywh.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=17EqAQY548NCGivt8pm/usGCI9DmpnCcVTNlGo5XxOE=; b=axWweZSQBwFjAxEZGxyUQC8QQ5ApnErNONJlH3c9mAi7jsuAeWe8BT8QRq3Ke5VLB1 gpLD++93yu9NRRgfpFNp83rvpPuwtEzzBN2XiGcxQ3ugaweJxL9FotoTQdVCsIXu77r0 hm+9Yvp0LM6zPSBRhX/KUiOEBYBgpUVIZmUUw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SMs9emN4QUtQcLJd6/IASGrFSkZXlr2j9rPretrZOAmiJHDgOPgCQWahh1idc8UneL L1te0/OTh1Irx0LidysTOugcz41bbf6KOR5mvON1XDuWRwQKaK+h3zc9DMZbpmbMxoAa Jy0D46tl/6nQP+O95R7SskPinE6ELctoHCpFw= Received: by 10.91.161.31 with SMTP id n31mr11065969ago.29.1256696189718; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aryeh-desktop.istudentunion.com (ool-44c0cd7a.dyn.optonline.net [68.192.205.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm243086yxh.13.2009.10.27.19.16.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE7A97B.6020700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16:27 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jack L." References: <4AE7A843.4060300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: win 7 dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:16:30 -0000 Jack L. wrote: > I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just > installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot > manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD > I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-) > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > >> I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when >> I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and >> after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use >> EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's "magic" >> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues and/or >> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting? >> >> Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista >> partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or >> /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g instead >> of via the mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on RC2 >> right now}]? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >