Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release

[Shantanu Mahajan]

+++ Lucas Holt [freebsd] [10-04-03 22:24 -0400]:
| Thanks for all your comments.  I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with 
| the boot manager.  Its working great!

	also you can try http://www.xosl.org

	Regards,
	Shantanu
| 
| 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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