Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue

[rachie]

I was able to install FreeBSD alongside Vista on my HP laptop.  What I did was 
I shrank down the windows partition using Partition Magic.  Its not normal 
NTFS according to Partition Magic.  But after I shrank it down I just booted 
from the FreeBSD install cd and installed it like normal, was able to create 
all the slices.  After I was done I had to run the vista boot repair in order 
to access Vista again.  I now have vista, stable, and current.

This isn't exactly an answer to your problem but I am hoping it will help you 
get FreeBSD installed.

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 4:57:19 pm compunction wrote:
 I am trying to install FreeBSD on the same drive as Vista in a dual boot
 configuration.  FDISK is reporting the normal geometry errors and it is
 also stating that my Vista partition does not start on a sector boundary. 
 I chose to ignore these errors, but when I was creating the last slice on
 the drive I got an error about not being able to create partition.  I did
 some research and I think the issue is related to the way Vista is creating
 partitions.

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923332
 http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html

 Does anyone know if/when fdisk will support this new partition layout?

 Thanks
 Mark
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Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

[rachie]

On Saturday 01 September 2007 10:22:08 pm Michael Hauber wrote:
 Hey, all...

 I've been a user of FreeBSD and OpenBSD for quite a while now. 
 Unfortunatly, I haven't had much time to tinker lately, and that's unlikely
 to change in the near future.  Sadly, I need to get an OS that my wife
 would be more comfortable using and that wouldn't be as time-comsuming to
 make it more comfortable for her.

 I downloaded the uberyl live CD and found that ubuntu seems to pick up on
 everything I have on the laptop (as well as all the attachments), so I'm
 downloading it now.

 Because I've put so much time into getting this FreeBSD install where it is
 now (and because I favor the BSDs), I'm still a bit hesitant...  Has anyone
 here had much experience with ubunu as a desktop?  Negatives/positives?

 Kind of OT, I guess...  I'd just rather hear it from someone in this group
 rather than the inevitable, Oh yeah.  You won't be sorry. from the ubuntu
 folk (salespitches == fingernails on a chalkboard :) ).

 Thanks,

 Mike


 PS.  Yes, I've played with PC-BSD.  Unfortunately, that's still more work
 than I have time for.

Hello :)

I used Ubuntu and Kubuntu before I installed FreeBSD.  It was pretty easy to 
use and a lot of things were made easy for clueless users like me.  I like 
FreeBSD better, but thats because it allows me to learn what is happening 
behind it all.  I think your wife will be happy with ubuntu.  Its probably 
going to be different enough to be annoying at times.  Ubuntu is the easiest 
form of Linux that I tried.  Maybe you could dual boot FreeBSD and Ubuntu?  I 
tried that once but couldn't figure out how to fix the boot loader.  I 
couldn't get back into Kubuntu, but that may be because I was triple booting 
with windows xp too. lol.  Its just an idea.  If you can figure out the 
bootloader problem then maybe you dont have to give up FreeBSD :)

Good luck!

Rachie
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