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From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD and NT coexistence ?
Date: 19 May 1993 15:25:14 GMT
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
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zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
: I tried installing Windows NT on a disk containing NetBSD and DOS and it
: messed up my NetBSD partition.  I tried with and without OS-BS (a boot
: selector).  Does anyone have any hints on how to run this combination
: (NetBSD/DOS/NT)?

A friend of mine tried 3 times to install NT on his system and every
time it trashed his 386BSD partition.  Eventually he found a NT
developer who confessed to a bug in the install code.  Personally I
think FBG (F****** Bill Gates) personally told them to nuke anything
related to UNIX.  ;-)

--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!