I don't believe that you need to use something like partition magic. You can just specify the partition or slice size for windows when you install it and leave the rest untouch. Then when you go to install FBSD you will see the DOS partition and unused slices. Don't touch the DOS slice, it is the win2k stuff. Create a FBSD slice using the unused space. You have to remember to use a boot manager. I prefer FBSD's. If you don't do that, you have to go in windows and edit a file that I forgot the name in order to dual boot.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Visotheary Riviere-Ung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6 > > Hi, > > > > I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and > > FreeBSD. How can I do it? > > My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? > > Thanks for your help > > Well, if you installed the FreeBSD over the top of the W2K slice, then > it is gone. You will have to reinstall it. > > To do a dual boot, you need at least two primary slices - one for > the W2k and one for FreeBSD. > > Then, you want to have the Microsloth stuff installed first - if you try > to install it second, it will almost certainly ignore what you have already > installed and clobber it. So, reinstall W2K if it has been wiped. > > Now, you take the system with W2k installed and use a utility to shrink > the W2k slice (MS stuff calls them partitions) and make room for a FreeBSD > slice. Then use the utility or the FreeBSD install utility (/stand/sysinstall > which is what is running when you install from FreeBSD CD or install floppies) > or use fdisk(8) to turn that freed up space in to a slice and install FreeBSD > on it. > > The utility for shrinking W2K and other slice/partition management that > I am familier with is Partition Magic. It works and isn't too expensive. > There are others, some even cheaper. There are also freeware utilities > but the free ones I have seen can't handle NTFS type files systems and > that is probably what your W2k is using. Partition Magic has pretty > good instructions with it, but it uses all MS terminology, so slices > become partitions and it doesn't know about UNIX partitions. > > Now, if you did properly create a slice for FreeBSD and installed FreeBSD > in it and didn't wipe out the W2K, then maybe you only messed up the > slice table. You might be able to use either Partition Magic or one > of the other utilities that manage disk slices/partitions to remake > the slice table without reinstalling anything. > > Good luck, > > ////jerry > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG > > CNRS UMR 7625 > > Fonctionnements et Evolution > > des Systèmes écologiques > > (Bâtiment A, 7ème étage) > > 7 Quai Saint-Bernard > > 75252 Paris Cedex 05 > > Tel: 01 44 27 25 70 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
