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> Hello -
>
> I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop (keeping WinXP-Pro).
> It has 60GB on a single hard drive, currently one big NTFS "partition" (C:)
> - which I will shrink down to about 16GB with PartitionMagic, leaving a
> new generic FAT or FAT32 slice which FreeBSD w
> -Original Message-
> From: Maude User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:40 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for
> EasyBoot?
>
>
> Hello -
>
> I'm going
Hello -
I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop (keeping WinXP-Pro). It
has 60GB on a single hard drive, currently one big NTFS "partition" (C:) -
which I will shrink down to about 16GB with PartitionMagic, leaving a new
generic FAT or FAT32 slice which FreeBSD will overwrite.
Hello
I would recommend creating a Fat 32 partion for transferring files between
FreeBSD and XP. This will work as long as you have not used all (four per
drive) of your primary partions.
> but when the instalation begun, I realized it couldn´t read mu NTFS drives
> so I thought the instalation
On Sunday 28 December 2003 09:50 am, Brian Black wrote:
> Hi Julio,
>
> i have installed freebsd along side NTFS systems for some time now and
> they do work. you need to make sure in /stand/sysinstall that u have
> your partitions, slices etc set up correctly,(I mean set up the way
> that u
Hi Julio,
i have installed freebsd along side NTFS systems for some time now and
they do work. you need to make sure in /stand/sysinstall that u have
your partitions, slices etc set up correctly,(I mean set up the way
that u think is correct). For Example, even though the XP slice that i
ha
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:14:24 -0300, Julio Cesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello everyone
This is my first post here and I wanted to say that I looked for this
info everywhere but didnÂt find thatÂs why IÂm making this simple
question. IÂm right now using Win XP but till yesterday I used to
Hello everyone
This is my first post here and I wanted to say that I looked for this info everywhere
but didn´t find that´s why I´m making this simple question. I´m right now using Win XP
but till yesterday I used to run a dual boot system (RedHat 9/XP) but I decided to
send RH to Hell and repla
I am trying to dual-boot winxp and freebsd 5.1-stable. I installed the
went through the prescribed routine.
1. Installing windows first.
2. Installing freebsd next.
2. Copy /boot/boot1 to c:\bootsect.bsd
3. add the line
C:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE"
to c:\boot.ini
At thi
