On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[email protected]> 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 attempting to avoid having to reinstall the fb side of things ;-) >> Oh, then you can just boot up the freebsd cd and then just install the freebsd boot manager after installing windows 7.
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman >> <[email protected]> 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 in such a way that vista would still find it's >>> "magic" >>> bytes in the mbr... does anyone know if win 7 has any similar issues >>> and/or >>> any other weirdness in reguards to dual booting? >>> >>> 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 mount patch [which doesn't work on 8.0-XXX it seems {I am on >>> RC2 >>> right now}]? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "[email protected]" >>> >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
