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From: m24725@mwunix.mitre.org ( James B Croall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Win95 and FreeBSD
Date: 28 Jul 1995 13:42:32 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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Message-ID: <3vapg8$5a@linus.mitre.org>
References: <3v97ga$8bu@feenix.metronet.com> <DCFApM.H10@actrix.gen.nz>
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chrislyt@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Lyttle) writes:
>sargo@metronet.com (sargo) wrote:
>>I want to run WIN95 on my 1st 2 SCSI hard drives and FreeBSD on the 3rd. It
>>installs ok but the boot manager never shows up and Win95 comes up every time.
Boot FreeBSD from a floppy (like you did when you installed it), tell
the configuration tool about your disks, and choose the option to write the
boot manager to disk ('B'? Not at home, can't check.) Worked fine for me,
with Win95 installed in a teeny-weeny partition on disk 0.
>>Maybe I did the install wrong. But I suspect that it is the new modified fat
>>that WIN95 uses that is the problem.
>>Has anyone gotten the 2 to work on the same system?? I'm a newbie on FreeBSD
>>and could use all the help I can get.
>yes, I just installed FreeBSD 's boot manager while in fdisk and then
>rebooted. Win95 seemed to need its io files reinstalled for some reson
>tho. (that's the ones that you can retransfer by doing a:\sys c: from
>your win95 fixit disk)
Win95 has a new FAT? Hmm. I would have assumed that if it had a new FAT, it
would be better than plain DOS, which it dosen't seem to be. But then, maybe I
missed something.
I didn't need to do any sys c: or anything like that.
Good luck.
- J