Re: dual boot winxp & 9.1-rc3

2012-12-03 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
39861297 1071- free - (535k) > > => 0 19933137 ada0s2 BSD (9.5G) > 0 18933760 1 freebsd-ufs (9.0G) > 18933760995328 2 freebsd-swap (486M) > 19929088 4049 - free - (2M) > > Now I want to add BSD dual boot

dual boot winxp & 9.1-rc3

2012-12-02 Thread Fbsd8
0 18933760 1 freebsd-ufs (9.0G) 18933760995328 2 freebsd-swap (486M) 19929088 4049 - free - (2M) Now I want to add BSD dual boot to the MBR. Is this all I need? fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ada ___ freebsd-que

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-27 Thread from_mars
Hi. Sorry for my english. I have a dual boot system, windows 7 64-bit (ada1) and FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 GEOM (ada0). I did it by installing FreeBSD boot0 on Windows HDD: boot0cfg -B ada1 then I choose Windows HDD as first boot drive in BIOS. Now at boot i have boot0 menu: F1 - Win

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 al

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 14:49, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system, windows 7 (ad0) and FreeBSD 9-stable (ad1). I moved back to BIOS boot after (I think) windows upgrade stabbed ad0. I found the system with a blank screen in the AM. Using BIOS boot, The first windows screen had an

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:41:22 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't > > you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose > > which drive to boot from? > > That surely seems the hard way.Why interrupt the b

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread doug
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to bel

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been searching through questions and forums for information > > on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. > > > > My problem

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hi, > > I have been searching through questions and forums for information > on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. > > My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be > contradictory. I

Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to believe. My new machine has two disk drives. Wind

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
- Original Message - > From: Thomas Mueller > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:47 AM > Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > >> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? [ SOLVED]

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
- Original Message - > From: Carl Johnson > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:12 AM > Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > > Unga writes: > >> Hi all >> >> Is any one by now succ

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
ery much appreciated. > Many thanks in advance. > Unga Not yet, but I intend to, once I get Linux built and installed, possibly starting with a cross-compile from FreeBSD 9. On my older computer, i386 (32-bit), I dual-boot FreeBSD 8.2 and Linux (Slackware) using LILO, also FreeDOS on anothe

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Unga writes: > Hi all > > Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > > I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs > Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot > recognise the file system type. > > Any help in this regard is ver

How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system type. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. Many th

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Daniel Staal
aris. :-) I think the original poster was referring to the fact that Ubuntu actually has an installer that can run as a Windows application, and will resize your hard drive for you and install a dual-boot setup. It does this while you are running Windows, although it has to reboot the machine.

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Polytropon
ystem that you can run within "Windows" (using the VM solution). An example is VirtualBSD: http://www.virtualbsd.info/ Hint 2: You can use a VM solution. You can _easily_ install a dual-boot solution for FreeBSD and "Windows", but you have to do that from within the FreeBSD install

legal notices at the end of emails (was: Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot)

2011-07-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 7/27/11 5:11 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing >> list that is available via an online archive... your "terms" >> are violated just by sending an email to this mailing list. > > Not necessarily. It says [e

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread perryh
Ryan Coleman wrote: > A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing > list that is available via an online archive... your "terms" > are violated just by sending an email to this mailing list. Not necessarily. It says [emphasis added]: > > The contents of this eMail ... should n

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
) At the moment, FreeBSD is in the throws of replacing the old sysinstall(8) with a brand-new, written from scratch installer. The focus is on getting the installer to support all of the capabilities of the OS like ZFS or gmirror, and what you propose is not a priority right now. You can alread

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-26 Thread Ryan Coleman
A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing list that is available via an online archive... your "terms" are violated just by sending an email to this mailing list. On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Ganesh Khedkar wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to FreeBSD , just wanted to give on

Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-26 Thread Ganesh Khedkar
Hi all, I am new to FreeBSD , just wanted to give one suggestion that , Ubuntu linux have given one Nice facility to user that they can easily install Ubuntu in windows and any drive we want . Even we can assign size to that drive . So cant we provide this facility to our user . So th

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too > daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail > sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to > work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run s

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0200 Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > > > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > > > lib/

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > > lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a > > > BSD partition of an fd

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread perryh
Gyrd Thane Lange wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > ... The code in i386/boot2 and > > lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a > > BSD partition of an fdisk "primary partition" (aka slice), > > or in a GPT partition, and would need ad

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-26 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > d...@safeport.com wrote: > > > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > > that would be a very useful howto. > > _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. > geom(8) understands "extended partitions"

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
d...@safeport.com wrote: > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. geom(8) understands "extended partitions" (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for othe

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
but I could not get FreeBSD in an extended partition. I am using easyBCD to do the dual boot. In doing what I did I never distrubed the boot records in the partitions. Once I got the MBR and the windows 7 second level boot code restored, it all worked as advertised. The trick as outlined in the

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7. My main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does user support for a local college. Before Vista the boot process was pretty simple, the MBR was one

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: > I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not wo

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: > I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. > > The answer is found in http://www.s

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: > I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though > I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec > does not work. > > The answer is found in > http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105

Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-23 Thread doug
I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html. Basically you u

Re: New installation of FreeBSD with Debian dual boot

2009-12-13 Thread LoH
hould let you just mount the partitions from the other OS. Good luck. --Joe AG wrote: Hello all I'm looking to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my system today, where it would dual boot with Debian. I have the *.iso all ready to go, so just wanted to check a couple of points before I log out of

Re: New installation of FreeBSD with Debian dual boot

2009-12-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
AG wrote: Hello all I'm looking to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my system today, where it would dual boot with Debian. I have the *.iso all ready to go, so just wanted to check a couple of points before I log out of Debian and boot into the DVD to install. Perhaps some veterans can advise

New installation of FreeBSD with Debian dual boot

2009-12-13 Thread AG
Hello all I'm looking to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my system today, where it would dual boot with Debian. I have the *.iso all ready to go, so just wanted to check a couple of points before I log out of Debian and boot into the DVD to install. Perhaps some veterans can advise me o

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread jhell
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11, aryeh.friedman@ wrote: I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:11:15 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Completely side question I use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs to mount my vista > partition do I need to change anything in my /etc/rc.d/* hierachy and/or > /etc/fstab after installing win 7 (I use a direct call to ntfs-3g > instead of via the m

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:27PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Jack L. wrote: > >I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just > >installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot > >manager and it said F1 windows and

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400 "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista > partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager > tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow > windows to nuke my mbr then use Easy

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Jack L.
I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am about to go out and buy windows 7

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Jack L.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Jack L. wrote: >> >> I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just >> installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot >> manager and it said F1 windows and the r

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Jack L. wrote: I was able to dual boot win7 and freebsd 8 without any problem, just installed windows first and installed freebsd with the freebsd boot manager and it said F1 windows and the rest are FreeBSD I am attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-) On Tue, Oct

win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am about to go out and buy windows 7 to replace my vista partition... when I installed vista I had to do some boot manager tricks (both before and after install)... namely I had to allow windows to nuke my mbr then use EasyBCD to remake it in such a way that vista would still find it's "mag

Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot

2009-07-16 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM, AG wrote: > Hello all > > I've been tempted for quite some years now to try FreeBSD, so I am wanting > to dual-boot the most up-to-date version (which I *think* is 7.2?) with > Debian (cn: Squeeze) on an AMD Sempron Dual Core 2300 sata mach

Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot

2009-07-16 Thread Carl Johnson
AG writes: > I've been tempted for quite some years now to try FreeBSD, so I am > wanting to dual-boot the most up-to-date version (which I *think* is > 7.2?) with Debian (cn: Squeeze) on an AMD Sempron Dual Core 2300 sata > machine, with a Debian configuration on /home. >

Re: FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot

2009-07-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:35:27PM +0100, AG wrote: > Hello all > > I've been tempted for quite some years now to try FreeBSD, so I am > wanting to dual-boot the most up-to-date version (which I *think* is > 7.2?) with Debian (cn: Squeeze) on an AMD Sempron Dual Core 2300 s

FreeBSD7.2 + Debian testing ("Squeeze") dual boot

2009-07-16 Thread AG
Hello all I've been tempted for quite some years now to try FreeBSD, so I am wanting to dual-boot the most up-to-date version (which I *think* is 7.2?) with Debian (cn: Squeeze) on an AMD Sempron Dual Core 2300 sata machine, with a Debian configuration on /home. This is a project that

Re: boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Underwood
Thanks, this is great! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

2009-07-01 Thread Nerius Landys
, I'll > be installing Linux (probably Ubuntu). But I'd like to set-up FreeBSD > also. > > Which of the boot managers do you suggest I use? Which OS should I > install first? Since I've never set-up a FreeBSD/Linux dual-boot > system, I don't know what, if

boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Underwood
nstalling Linux (probably Ubuntu). But I'd like to set-up FreeBSD also. Which of the boot managers do you suggest I use? Which OS should I install first? Since I've never set-up a FreeBSD/Linux dual-boot system, I don't know what, if any, pitfalls to avoid. I'm hoping some of y

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kent Hauser wrote: > Sorry I was less than clear. > > I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 > (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected > "F1" at the boot menu, the system just hung. > > I

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Kent Hauser
Sorry I was less than clear. I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected "F1" at the boot menu, the system just hung. I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had aroun

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this problem in the past. I re-ran my fdisk script from an old 6.x boot disk & recovered the XP partitions, but can't boot 7.2. Re-instal

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Kent You're going to need to provide a bit more detail on the problem. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM, KENT HAUSER wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 > -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread KENT HAUSER
Hi, Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this problem in the past. I re-ran my fdisk script from an old 6.x boot disk & recovered the XP partitions, but can't boot 7

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 27, 2009 a las 02:57:10PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > >Concerning EasyBCD, it tries always in unattended mode to boot the damn > >Vista and not the other FreeBSD partition which I have i 1st place in > >the boot menu, i.e. if you just switch on the laptop and go for co

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 > >laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to > >reduce the Vista to let's say 50 G

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I downloaded the DVD version of 7.2 Release and did a minimum install as usual before customizing and for the first time in years FreeBSD installer has done something odd to my XP boot loader (whatever is responisble?) I know I'm likely to be told to go to a Windows forum but wondered if

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Right > click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will >

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 03:56:41PM +0200, Leslie Jensen escribió: > I've done this a few times and the best procedure is to use the Parted > magic CD and resize the partition. The Vista shrink tool is not > something I would recommend. You don't have to think of defragging when > y

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
Anders Troback skrev: On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. R

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Anders Troback
On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis > Kiagias escribió: > > > Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> > > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. > > Right clic

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Right > click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will >

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for so

reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for some investigations, or w

Re: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Did you tried BSD Boot Manager? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Laci From: Saifi Khan To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:14:11 PM Subject: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD Hi all: My apologies if this is

dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: My apologies if this is a newbie question, however, i'm trying to look beyond GRUB fixation. i'd like to do a dual boot installation of FreeBSD and openBSD, without using GRUB or LILO. Any suggestions on the bootloader to use ? What would your suggestion be, if i'm tryi

Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD/Windows 2003 Server

2008-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
s that long. Secondly, this was discussed at length in the last couple of days. Please check the archives. Third, I have never had a problem with doing this and have built a number of dual boot machines with various versions of MS-Win and FreeBSD and always used the FreeBSD boot manager. Some questions

Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD/Windows 2003 Server

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
on this? Has anyone got this > combination to work? > > Thanks for your help. I am not aware of any bootloader changes between XP and Server 2003, but ideally, you should install Server 2K3 first, and FreeBSD second, using the FreeBSD Boot Manager at the boot manager selection. I haven't

Dual Boot FreeBSD/Windows 2003 Server

2008-11-22 Thread bsdnub
I am trying to setup a test server that will be able to boot either FreeBSD to Windows Server 2003 R2. I have tried to use the BSD Boot manager and the Windows Boot manager. In either case I have run into problems. When using the BSD boot manager, it will cause the Windows server to crash at

Re: Vista Dual Boot issues - Does not start on a track boundary

2008-10-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
Tom Stuart skrev: Hi Guys, I'm nowhere near new on the FreeBSD front but have Never done a dual boot with vista. Vista came pre-installed on this machine and I created another partition using the resize function of Vista. When I'm setting up my slices its complaining about Chunk ad0S

Vista Dual Boot issues - Does not start on a track boundary

2008-10-03 Thread Tom Stuart
Hi Guys, I'm nowhere near new on the FreeBSD front but have Never done a dual boot with vista. Vista came pre-installed on this machine and I created another partition using the resize function of Vista. When I'm setting up my slices its complaining about Chunk ad0S1 does not start

Re: keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Aryeh Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dual boot machine and if I set the Vista clock to the local > time then no matter what I do on the fbsd side (via tzsetup) forces > fbsd to report local time instead of GMT and vice versa (if fbsd is > local the

Re: keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:12:22AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have a dual boot machine and if I set the Vista clock to the local > time then no matter what I do on the fbsd side (via tzsetup) forces > fbsd to report local time instead of GMT and vice versa (if fbsd is > local t

keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a dual boot machine and if I set the Vista clock to the local time then no matter what I do on the fbsd side (via tzsetup) forces fbsd to report local time instead of GMT and vice versa (if fbsd is local then vista is GMT). How can I get them to agree

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > There should be a more elegant way to do this, but the way I did it > > was to: > > > ># pkg_delete -f xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 > ># cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel C

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > [...] > > > (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated > > > Graphics Controller r

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > [...] > > (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated > > Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 > > New driver is "i810" > > The i810 driver doe

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] > (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated > Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 > New driver is "i810" The i810 driver doesn't quite support laptop screens that well. Try using the "intel" dri

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > > > > > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module do

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instanc

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:16:31PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] > Do I need to get Xorg working first? before I deploy gnome2? I do plan > to install gnome 2 -certainly at some stage - would that solve my > problems? > > I am a bit confused nowplease help! I thought gnome 2 wouldnt work >

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tu

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > >>> On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > >> > >>> On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/01/2008, doug <[EM

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I h

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:59AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > > On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > > I have ju

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > >>> > One question: I have just installed

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" but it isnt coming up, giving some sort

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Kimi
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > > One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" > > > but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing > >

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > > > One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" > > > but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing > >

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > > > One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" > > but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing > > something here? I did choose for "Windows X" during the FreeBSD

Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx" but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here? I did choose for "Windows X" during the FreeBSD setup - shall I do a port upgrade? Thanks This is really

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Alphons Fonz van Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >> No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you > >> actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? > > > you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD

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