From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 0:51:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C28B37B401 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D888D43FAF for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from 172.20.0.144 (unknown [172.20.0.144]) by ashram.rhavenn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526352A831; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:04:12 -0600 (CST) From: Henrik Hudson To: "Makaveli The Don" Subject: Re: I Need Details To Dual Boot Windows XP and FreeBSD Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:51:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303180251.06224.lists@rhavenn.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 18 March 2003 02:34, Makaveli The Don wrote: > How do I dual boot windows xp and FreeBSD? Can someone give me a detailed > explanation of steps to take? > > I have a 40gig hard drive. I don't want to destroy my current installation > until I have the details down. I eventually don't mind destroying my > current installation of windows XP. > > So far, this is what I have figured out: > 1. Fdisk the hard drive to destroy current installation. > 2. Install windows XP on a 20gig hard drive (or however much I choose). > 3. Install FreeBSD... > > That's all I know. > > I need the details for the rest, such as: when I get to the FreeBSD > bootloader options what do I choose? > > Basically, as much information (details) as you can provide I would greatly > appreciate. > > Thank you very much. > > -Bishop > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Hey Bishop- For the most part, if you can install them seperately on the system it's the same thing to do a dual-boot. You have them in the correct order as well, XP first and then BSD. You can use XP's installer to wipe the drive to, just make sure to set your size right and not use the whole drive, ie: 20GB like you said. I always do a "Custom" BSD install, so I don't know the steps in the other screens at all :) The only biggy is that when you are done setting up your partitions you want to pick install "Boot Manager" . BSD is pretty good at noticing other partitions and then upon a reboot you will get displayed a list of choices: F1 ??? for the first partition F2 FreeBSD to go into your BSD installation It will remember the last one you picked and set that to the "default". Hope that helped. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help." Calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message