Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread David Demelier
On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Da Rock
On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread David Demelier
to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't the 'a' partition

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread krad
: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space

Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-18 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2 - NTFS (windows main partition) ada0s3 - BSD ada0s3a - freebsd-swap (3G) ada0s3b - freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive) And then I let the installer

clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date

Re: clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Friday 09 November 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the

Re: clocks and dualboot

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Tinguely
I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date correct on the vista side? As Mihai

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:41:50AM +0200, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Laurens Timmermans
Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to copy as binary. Kent I tried the following: bsdlabel -B ad0s3

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to copy as

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:45, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I

Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Laurens Timmermans
Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not on my laptop... I installed FreeBSD, copied /boot/boot1 to a usb-stick,

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not on my

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Laurens Timmermans
Kent Stewart schreef: On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm,

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:19, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Tore Lund
Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not on my laptop... I installed FreeBSD,

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-21 Thread Laurens Timmermans
Kent Stewart schreef: On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:19, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with ... That is very similar to what I am using right now on this

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
Dual-boot is always a bit of a risk to install, backup your important data first... I have good experiences with the GAG bootmanager, which can be installed as a port sysutils/gag, and the website is http://gag.sourceforge.net/ You can just create a boot floppy, and either save the config on the

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread spen
check this out for multi-boot OS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER particularly 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD? so if you choose to edit the boot.ini of windows XP system file you will just have to copy from

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
On 06/12/05, spen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check this out for multi-boot OS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER particularly 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD? so if you choose to edit the boot.ini of windows XP system

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
-- Forwarded message -- From: spen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Dec-2005 16:16 Subject: Re: DualBoot To: Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever works for you, the downside of this is that the config file is saved on the filesystem, not the MBR, so if you do the right thing

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
Forwarded Well, not entirly, If windows craches, and you to reinstall you'll also need to reinstall the boot manager, not much work, but still... Also, there's a small change of the windows filesystem going bad on the wrong location (where your boot manager is located) and you won't be able to

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread martinko
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:46:12 +, Martin Tournoy wrote Dual-boot is always a bit of a risk to install, backup your important data first... I have good experiences with the GAG bootmanager, which can be installed as a port sysutils/gag, and the website is http://gag.sourceforge.net/ You

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-04 Thread martinko
Mr. Albritton wrote: How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with the WinXP CD and it didn't work sigh Any suggestions? --- Mike Albritton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DualBoot

2005-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) It works fine. The machine I am typing this on has FreeBSD and XP dual booted.You will want to install XP first or keep the XP that came with the machine and just shrink the XP slice with something like Partition Magic

DualBoot

2005-11-27 Thread Mr. Albritton
How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with the WinXP CD and it didn't work sigh Any suggestions? --- Mike Albritton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: DualBoot

2005-11-27 Thread Remington
They work perfectly fine together, I've been using XP and BSD with the BSD boot loader for sometime now, or GRUB also works. To get rid of it, you have to use fixboot, and fixmbr, in what order escapes me, its been awhile... On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:29 -0700, Mr. Albritton wrote: How viable is

Re: DualBoot

2005-11-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:50:12PM -0800, Remington wrote: They work perfectly fine together, I've been using XP and BSD with the BSD boot loader for sometime now, or GRUB also works. Life is made somewhat easier if you install XP first, then install FreeBSD. It's very useful to have a slice

Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the menu, I can

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. Now, I'd like

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
dick hoogendijk wrote: Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS to boot of the SECOND hardrive first. Thanks, I tried to look at the options in the BIOS. I can enable or disable the SATA

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Robert Slade
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:03, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any confusion, I

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:25:23 +0100 Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:03, dick hoogendijk wrote: Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS to boot of the SECOND

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, I tried to look at the options in the BIOS. I can enable or disable the SATA disks. Look where you can tell it to boot off a CDROM and ensure that it can't also be configured to boot off second hard disk. So, it appears that I have to install

dualboot winxp freebsd

2005-07-29 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
Hi, it seems it's so common knowledge to achieve this, that there isn't any info anywhere about it. So, I have a winxp hard disk at the end of a sata pci-card, and freebsd harddisk straight in the motherboard ide connection. So if both are connected, freebsd starts, and if I take cabled off the

Re: dualboot winxp freebsd

2005-07-29 Thread Björn König
Mikko Heiskanen wrote: it seems it's so common knowledge to achieve this, that there isn't any info anywhere about it. So, I have a winxp hard disk at the end of a sata pci-card, and freebsd harddisk straight in the motherboard ide connection. So if both are connected, freebsd starts, and if I

Dualboot confusion

2005-05-18 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello. I am trying to run FreeBSD while my Windows XP harddrive is connected to my computer. But they don't seem to like each other: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 FreeBSD was installed on ad6. When connecting both

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:01:09PM -0400, Jud wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:53:54 +0200, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] Hmmm... It's a long time since I had any dealings with a Microsoft OS, but I seem to

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-17 Thread Doug Poland
Matthew Seaman said: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing FreeBSD slices intact. Same goes for the MBR, of course. And yes, I will

dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-16 Thread Tobias Roth
Hi Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing FreeBSD slices intact. Same goes for the MBR, of course. And yes, I will back up my data in any case, but I'd still hate it if I had to set up my whole

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing FreeBSD slices intact. Same goes for the MBR, of course. And yes, I will back up my data in

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-16 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: Is it save to install WinXP after FreeBSD? My IBM recovery cd goofed up my WinXP and I'd like to reinstall XP only and keep my existing FreeBSD slices intact. Same

Re: dualboot, first fbsd, then xp

2003-06-16 Thread Jud
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:53:54 +0200, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] Hmmm... It's a long time since I had any dealings with a Microsoft OS, but I seem to remember that they always preferred to go in the first

Re: booting into windows changes active partition on dualboot system

2003-05-29 Thread Jud
On Mon, 26 May 2003 02:52:21 -0700, yussef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dualboot system with freebsd 4.8 installed on the primary slice, and win2k installed on the secondary slice. The OS' were installed in this order. Ive installed many fbsd/win2k dualboot systems before [usually