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[banj0]

Probably a mistake but I allocated just one of my HD's for my OS installs; 7, Mint, and Ubuntu. I set the partitions to how I wanted with Paragon before the fact and everything I've ever read about multi-booting said to install any version of doze first, then *nix. Guess it has something to do with the Doze MBR and Grub/Lilo after the fact.

Anyway, everything worked out great and I've been triple booting with Grub for a good while, no bubbles nor troubles.

But I woke up this morning and, all of a sudden, my 7 Ultimate install is displaying "This version of Windows is Not Genuine." Not sure why or how. It's not like I used a cracked version or anything. And I prefer to update Windoze via the web. Regardless, I'm gonna have to reinstall 7 on that partition because I can't stream stuff via WMC to my xbox anymore. Guess it has to be "genuine" to do that.

Which brings me to my question: Will my nix installs and grub be ok if I wipe my doze partition and reinstall 7? Or will I have to redo all of them? Just looking for opinions.

TIA y'all!

[brewin]

I've had to do this a few times. You'll just need to reinstall GRUB to the MBR. After installing Windows, boot up an Ubuntu livecd. Then do this stuff in a terminal...

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot (replace sda1 with your boot partition)
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda


That should work...

[banj0]

Cool. Thx, Brew. Trying it now....

[Sphere]

banj0, on Mar 10 2010, 06:12 AM, said:

But I woke up this morning and, all of a sudden, my 7 Ultimate install is displaying "This version of Windows is Not Genuine." Not sure why or how. It's not like I used a cracked version or anything.

I had the same today. But after just clicking "activate online" all was good again. Guess it was a short bug in windows

[othman11]

I'm currently running Ubuntu in doze on my bro's Dell. No issues so far.

[banj0]

brewin, on Mar 10 2010, 01:32 AM, said:

I've had to do this a few times. You'll just need to reinstall GRUB to the MBR. After installing Windows, boot up an Ubuntu livecd. Then do this stuff in a terminal...

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot (replace sda1 with your boot partition)
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
That should work...

Brew, not sure if I've ever said in public that 'you're the f'ing man' so there ya go. Thx bro, much appreciated.

If you knew of a bootstrap for flash drives and FreeBSD, I'd name my first born after ya. (But I'll never have kids so that sentiment is mostly sentimental. Or something.)

[brewin]

banj0, on Mar 12 2010, 02:13 AM, said:

Brew, not sure if I've ever said in public that 'you're the f'ing man' so there ya go. Thx bro, much appreciated.

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If you knew of a bootstrap for flash drives and FreeBSD,

Do you mean you want to install FreeBSD to a flash drive and boot it? I would think you could just plug it in, boot up the FreeBSD install cd, make a partition on /dev/sdb (or whatever it is), and install it there. Also install a bootloader to /dev/sdb.

Don't know much about BSD though.

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I'd name my first born after ya. (But I'll never have kids so that sentiment is mostly sentimental. Or something.)

Don't be silly. A tattoo of my name would be nice though.

[banj0]

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Do you mean you want to install FreeBSD to a flash drive and boot it? I would think you could just plug it in, boot up the FreeBSD install cd, make a partition on /dev/sdb (or whatever it is), and install it there. Also install a bootloader to /dev/sdb.

Don't know much about BSD though.

No, I was hoping for an installer via flash to write to the hard drive.

And from my (admittedly-limited) google-fu, it may not be possible without quite a bit of time. Story short, a friend of mine bought a netbook with no Optical ROM's. It came with Windows 7 pre-installed for an OS and it has 3 USB ports.

I've used flash drives to install Vista, 7, and a couple nix distros but, for whatever reason, the FreeBSD folk don't include bootstraps in the ISO. So, you absolutely need an Optical ROM to install FreeBSD permanently on the HD, or so it seems. The BIOS on the netbook allows for setting USB as a boot-option and I tested it with 7 and Ubuntu and they both started to install. Not so with BSD.

From everything I've read, this makes the most sense but it's a bit of work: linkage

I'm thinking it'd be easier to just buy an external ROM.

[brewin]

banj0, on Mar 13 2010, 04:28 AM, said:

No, I was hoping for an installer via flash to write to the hard drive.

And from my (admittedly-limited) google-fu, it may not be possible without quite a bit of time. Story short, a friend of mine bought a netbook with no Optical ROM's. It came with Windows 7 pre-installed for an OS and it has 3 USB ports.

I've used flash drives to install Vista, 7, and a couple nix distros but, for whatever reason, the FreeBSD folk don't include bootstraps in the ISO. So, you absolutely need an Optical ROM to install FreeBSD permanently on the HD, or so it seems. The BIOS on the netbook allows for setting USB as a boot-option and I tested it with 7 and Ubuntu and they both started to install. Not so with BSD.

From everything I've read, this makes the most sense but it's a bit of work: linkage

I'm thinking it'd be easier to just buy an external ROM.

Ah, I see. When I had an old Fujitsu tablet without even USB, I installed Ubuntu on it over the network with PXE. Admittedly, it was a total bitch.

I have never tried to install plain FreeBSD, but I have tried PC-BSD, which provides a USB image that you can just write to a flash drive with dd. It's basically FreeBSD with a nice installer.