Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:15 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com 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

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 the rest are FreeBSD I am

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

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

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

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

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-27 Thread Jack L.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com 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 rest are FreeBSD

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 aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to go out