FreeBSD beside WinXP

[chael at southgate.ph.inter.net]

Thanks for all the replies. And yes, that's what my FAT32 is for... sort of
a mediator for the different OSes which also contains important files but no
directories for working applications.

Ok, let me get this in short. You basically recommend me to follow this
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER ?

If I want to copy that /boot/boot1 from my FreeBSD partion to my drive C:\,
how can I get to my FreeBSD partition, in the first place, if I won't be
able to boot from it after installation? (because I assume the above steps
would require you not to touch your MBR while installing FreeBSD). Can I
create a boot disk to boot that FreeBSD?

Thanks.



>On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:14 am, ogautherot at freesurf.fr wrote:
>> As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a
>> separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if
>> your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times.
>>
>> What do you need the 10GB FAT32 partition for? (I suspect the same
purpose
>> but with respect to Windows...?!?)

>If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to from
>FreeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of mutli-boot
>machines and I almost always have that much in one partition that is FAT32.
>
>FWIW, all of my multi-boot XP/FreeBSD have the main FreeBSD slice on the
>primary master. You can add /boot/boot0 to your c-drive and boot.ini and
5.x
>or 4.x boots like a charm using ntldr. My c-drive only contains data and
does
>not contain an OS.
>
>Kent