Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Warren, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:04:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: > > > This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** > > windows 7 install disks. > > It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a > backup

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: This is a new, windows 7 preinstalled machine that came with **NO** windows 7 install disks. It's nice to make the first boot of a factory-fresh system from a backup CD like clonezilla and back up all of the partitions on the drive. That's before allowing

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:56:39 +0530 Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts > wrote: > > Hello Masoom, > > > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 > > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Masoom, > >>

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
so here is one trick if you got guts to try :). I recently got saved with this trick you have Win7 pre-installed, now free up some space and let FreeBSD install, select the option "do not touch mbr". Next boot you will find Win7 gone. Boot from Win7 CD and let it install at same location where

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts wrote: > Hello Masoom, > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts >> wrote: >> > Hi Masoom, >> >   Good to hear from you.., >> > >> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 >> > Masoom Shaikh w

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Warren, Great to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:10:47 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: > > Hello Masoom, > > > I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now > >>> > >>> That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, S Roberts wrote: Hello Masoom, I have been using EasyBCD on Win7 + FBSD8 for some 6+ months now That's great to hear.., Can you confirm that you started off with a pre-installed windows 7 machine / single disk and then **added** FreeBSD, please? EasyBCD worked for me on

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts > wrote: > > Hi Masoom, > >   Good to hear from you.., > > > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 > > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts > >

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hello Masoom, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts > wrote: > > Hi Masoom, > >   Good to hear from you.., > > > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 > > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts > >

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts wrote: > Hi Masoom, >   Good to hear from you.., > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts >> wrote: >> > Hello Leslie, >> >      Good to hear from you.., >> > >> > On Sun, 04 Apr 201

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread S Roberts
Hi Masoom, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts > wrote: > > Hello Leslie, > >      Good to hear from you.., > > > > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: > >> > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/fre

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello Leslie, >      Good to hear from you.., > > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html >> >> /Leslie >> > > I had a look at the thread - thanks.., > > The doc

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-04 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Svein, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its > > compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-04 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: > The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its > compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it > supports windows 7. > > Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-04 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Leslie, Good to hear from you.., On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html > > /Leslie > I had a look at the thread - thanks.., The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatibl

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
You can read this tread: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie > Hello, > Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I > can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed > machine (single disk) in a dual-