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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!nntp.gmd.de!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!Materna.DE!osix!mlangwal From: mlangwal@Materna.DE (Meik Langwald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Date: 14 Jul 95 10:48:51 GMT Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH, Vosskuhle 37, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 44 Message-ID: <mlangwal.805718931@osix> References: <3ts0r6$i2u@news.bu.edu> <3tujrm$5r4@hq.hq.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: osix.materna.de Wayne Boline <jayhawk@mnsinc.com> writes: >mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: >>I'm going to have them both on the same hard-drive. Is there any FAQ? >>Non of the systems is already installed. I am also interesting in the >>file-system co-existance. Or should I only use FAT-fs to share files? >> >They will coexist but you will not be able to use the NT boot manager. >You will have to use the FreeBSD boot manager. Maybe not. I have added my Linux partition to the NT boot menu. So I don't have to use one boot manager for every os I've installed (DOS, Win95, WinNT, Linux). I'll describe the easiest way in short: - write a copy of your FreeBSD's boot sector to a file. It should be the first sector of your FreeBSD boot partiotion. It shouldn't be very difficult at all. I'm using diskedit from Norton Utilities 5.0, but there should be numerous other programs. - This copy will be used to boot FreeBSD. Everytime the boot sector changes, you have to redo the first step. With Linux & lilo this is everytime you change your /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. (The config information is held in the boot sector; BTW you shouldn't use the partition table for lilo :-) - In the root directory of your NT boot partition the is a hidden and read- only file called boot.ini. Unhide it (and make it read!) and load it into an editor; it's plain ascii. Add a line like C:\boot.bsd="FreeBSD" where the part in front of the equal sign is the filename of the boot sector and the part behind is the Text that shows up in the menu. - Save boot.ini, make it read only and hidden and you're ready!!! My first experiences tried to address the boot sector direct (something like "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)"), but that wasn't succesfull. cu Meik -- Meik.Langwald@Materna.DE You have new mail.