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Old 4th May 2008
teckk teckk is offline
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Yes, do not touch the MBR when you install and you can boot into FreeBSD with a boot floppy. When you turn the machine on normally without the boot floppy in the drive, windows will boot and will not even see the partition. As I said BSD wants a primary partition not a logical one. So does windows. Go slow and read every prompt or you will hose windows.

I was letting you know that there are more elegant ways of doing it. Like the machine displaying a boot menu when you turn it on.

As always back up anything important. Like files or windows reg keys. Windows and FreeBSD might not play well on the same drive. Linux can be installed on any logical partition and booted with grub/lilo. FreeBSD wants the primary partition just like windows.

I've had BSD and windows on the same drive.

Let us know how well it works. Good luck.

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Last edited by teckk; 4th May 2008 at 12:57 PM.
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