Dual Booting FreeBSD

Michael L. Squires mikes at siralan.org
Sat Nov 15 15:46:32 PST 2003


> 40 gigs.  Would it be easier to install FreeBSD on the unformatted partition 
> or the new hard drive for the purpose of dual booting with xp?  Also, does 
> anyone know how to set up a dual boot system or know of a good guide to doing 
> so?

I have one system which uses XOSL with separate disks (SCSI) for FreeBSD
5.1-CURRENT and XP, and another using the standard FBSD boot manager
where the primary disk is all XP and FreeBSD uses the first partition
of the secondary drive.

Both work fine.

Mike Squires


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