Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP in

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > > > >>Jerry, > > >> > > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next qu

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > >>Jerry, > >> > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get > >>around > >>the proprietary recovery section HP inst

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basicall

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > Jerry, > > You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around > the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the > nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has > Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. The FreeBSD Handbook - free online at the FreeBSD web site - has a whole section on that.

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Neal Hogan
I used gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ) to move the XP partition to make room for fBSD. You make a bootable CD and I found it to be quite simple. Make sure that your XP partition is defragmented before using gparted. Otherwise, gparted will not let you manipulate the partition. Once you

Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread tsai
Hi all, Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. Thanks, tsai -- tsai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi