Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:25:13 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org> To: Mike McGranahan <mikemcg@ucla.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Message-ID: <20021216205513.GA949@mahajan.homeunix.net>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +++ Mike McGranahan [freebsd] [16/12/02 05:06 -0800]: | Hello, |=20 | I would like to know what is the best way to dual boot FreeBSD 4.7 and | Windows XP? I found this information ( | http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=3D7963936&list=3D151 ) reg= arding | how to use the Windows XP loader, and this information on GRUB ( | http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Booting.html#Booting ) though th= ere | is no mention of Windows XP. |=20 | I have two hard drives in my system, a 20GB which currently has Windows X= P, | and a 10GB which is empty. I was considering making the 10GB drive common | storage for both OS' as FAT32. I would then move my data from the 20GB | drive to the 10GB, partition the 20GB drive and install FreeBSD alongside | Windows XP. Besides setting up the bootloader, would there be any FreeBSD | problems with this configuration? In what ways could I set up dual-booti= ng | for this configuration, and which method is best? |=20 | Alternately, I could just install FreeBSD on the 10GB drive, leaving the | 20GB/Windows XP drive untouched. In what ways can I set up dual-booting = for | this alternate configuration, and which method is best? |=20 | Are there any online documents that address this, or would be insightful? |=20 | Thank you for you help. |=20 | Mike McGranahan |=20 | Worst case scenario, I could use the alter the BIOS to control which drive | boots. |=20 | ------------------------------ why not try www.xosl.org? Regards, Shantanu --=20 # ls "/usr/lib/common sense" ls: /usr/lib/common sense: No such file or directory --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9/j2x8NTC7RN6/Z4RAlEOAJ9qyhVWU/2F39miXDmY0khL3OjZ+wCffqoC vyx9UyjJhkBMfYOwFp5/O5M= =kaI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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