I want to dual boot my win2k with freebsd. I have 2 disks (primary master and secondary master). I boot from CD (4.6.2) into sysinstall and get to the point where I set my secondary master for bsd and then it asks if I want to install a bootloader. I say yes I do but then it kicks me back into fdisk without continuing on to creating the partitions. Am I doing something wrong? I feel a bit silly because I have installed FreeBSD standalone numerous times. Can anyone help?
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Newbie Q - Dual Boot FreeBSD w/Win2k
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Hi there,
You need to install both OS's on the same disk for the boot loader to work, but i choose to use removable hard disk caddy's.
Install win2k first, then install bsd on a new slice (partition), enter label editor and create file system on new partiton (xxxs2)
Boot loader should allow you to boot from either partition.
Regards,
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You need to install both OS's on the same disk for the boot loader to work, but i choose to use removable hard disk caddy's.
Install win2k first, then install bsd on a new slice (partition), enter label editor and create file system on new partiton (xxxs2)
Boot loader should allow you to boot from either partition.
Regards,
JayBot
"Always know what you say, but don't always say what you know!"- Thread starter
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Why do both OS's have reside on the same disk? Can you not just install the bootloader on the first disk? GRUB & LILO both accept this and the information I have indicates that the "Booteasy" bootloader should be able to do the same.
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Why do both OS's have reside on the same disk? Can you not just install the bootloader on the first disk? GRUB & LILO both accept this and the information I have indicates that the "Booteasy" bootloader should be able to do the same.
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Why do both OS's have reside on the same disk? Can you not just install the bootloader on the first disk? GRUB & LILO both accept this and the information I have indicates that the "Booteasy" bootloader should be able to do the same.
Bad Idea... Expect lots of problems headaches etc.
Even if it were to work out okay which it can, it defeats the purpose of utilizing both operating systems simultaneausely.
If you want to learn any kind of Unix, dedicate one system to it and stay away from the lame Microsoft-Tech-Mentality of favoring dual-boots.
Dual boots are pointless, useless, and prone to alot of errors in the short or long run that will probably leave you stuck with WindBlowS.
Its a way better idea to get a decent system that can run X-Windows, configure Samba on it, and then get VNC(which is not superfast but does the job), and then you can use both operating systems and share files between them.
With VNC its like a remote desktop, you can open up and run your windows desktop on your Unix/Linux box which ever you have and not have to worry about going through your time consuming, hardrive wasting reboots.
Otherwise suffer.
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Just to add a little info, I just got wine to work on Linux even thought this is not a Linux forum.
I cant explain exactly how, I got Counter-Strike to work but it works, its very slow though and I am picking at the config to see exactly what I did.
Wine does work though, and from experience. I have untarred many files(mostly basic stuff), that some was designed(supposively for Linux) and configured on FreeBSD and they work without any prejudice from FeeBSD.
I have two freeBSD boxes one serves only as NFS, and the other as a router.
There is no GUI on either of them so I havent tried compiling wine on there.
Go to wine-hqs website and find out if they have any packages for FeeBSD, and if not, then just dare yourself to try out the Linux packages.
Again Good Luck.
I cant explain exactly how, I got Counter-Strike to work but it works, its very slow though and I am picking at the config to see exactly what I did.
Wine does work though, and from experience. I have untarred many files(mostly basic stuff), that some was designed(supposively for Linux) and configured on FreeBSD and they work without any prejudice from FeeBSD.
I have two freeBSD boxes one serves only as NFS, and the other as a router.
There is no GUI on either of them so I havent tried compiling wine on there.
Go to wine-hqs website and find out if they have any packages for FeeBSD, and if not, then just dare yourself to try out the Linux packages.
Again Good Luck.
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