Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release
Lucas Holt
luke at foolishgames.com
Thu Apr 10 19:24:14 PDT 2003
Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with
the boot manager. Its working great!
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> * Lucas Holt (luke at foolishgames.com) wrote:
> ==> What is the best approach to dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD?
> ==> Specifically I want to know what to do about the boot manager? I
> don't
> ==> want to damage Windows XP in the process.
> ==>
> ==> My system currently has Windows XP Home edition on a 30 gig
> partition
> ==> and another 9 gigs or so free at the end.
> ==>
> ==> I have read some newsgroups, but some people are saying that its
> not a
> ==> good idea to use the nt boot loader.
> ==>
> ==> Lucas Holt
> ==> Luke at FoolishGames.com
>
> Hi Luke
>
> I would go ahead and [back up your data and] install FreeBSD. I'm
> assuming you want to stick it on the 9GB free space? No problem,
> just install the FreeBSD boot loader when sysinstall asks you--it'll
> boot 'em both, although you may get a display something like:
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F2 ???
>
> F2 in this case will be WinXP.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Joshua
>
>
Lucas Holt
Luke at FoolishGames.com
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