FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

[S Roberts]

Hello Warren,

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:04:19 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote:
> 
> > This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO**
> > windows 7 install disks.
> 
> It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a
> backup CD like clonezilla and back up all of the partitions on the
> drive. That's before allowing them to boot into the manufacturer
> Windows setup.
> 

I can imagine.

The machine was set up with the windows 7 install on half of the disk,
and is already set up with the work-related commercial apps (visio, ip
comm, borland, etc) that I can't get away from, so I am where I am at
the moment as far as the window 7 section of this dual-boot plan is
concerned.

From where I sit, with (at least) three PRs already in for
sysinstall's broken boot manager config, and with one going back as far
as 2005, its not looking likely that anyone is interested in fixing this
problem anytime soon.

Thanks.

Regards,

S Roberts

> (PS: please trim your responses.  Thanks.)
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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