On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a
computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this
installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a
minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP
partition. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can
be done from WinXP side, a minimal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:14:05 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a
minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP
partition. This
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 14:31 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:14:05 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a
minimal hard disk with
Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on
a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can
this installation be done? In
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 09:05 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk,
but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use
partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by
anything else, including FreeBSD
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on
a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so,
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:25 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
Booting the same Windows install alternately in a VM and then on real
hardware may trigger the Genuine Advantage annoyance.
This is true, but for some exceptional cases perhaps untrue.
I wasn't aware about this possibility, but it does
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk,
but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use
partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by
anything
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk,
but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use
partitions on a disk that any
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a
computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this
installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so that it
can be booted from the traditional master boot record? It is important
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed
on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how
can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to
install 9.1 so
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:07 PM, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a
computer on which Windows XP currently resides?
As others have already answered, yes. The risks are minimal if you are
careful but you will always
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
Partition Magic
I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are
full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at
http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment
the Windows
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
Partition Magic
I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are
full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at
http://partedmagic.com as a
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST),
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be
installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently
resides?
Yes.
If so,
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