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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!merlion.singnet.com.sg!usenet From: syscom@singnet.com.sg (Brian Tan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What happens if I install Win95 Date: 9 Sep 1995 16:49:14 GMT Organization: Syscom Technology Lines: 17 Message-ID: <42sgia$1m0@merlion.singnet.com.sg> References: <428bcl$1l9@gol1.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts900-1426.singnet.com.sg Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 In article <428bcl$1l9@gol1.gol.com>, michael@gnj.or.jp says... > >My 1 GB SCSI hard disk has a 100MB DOS 6.2 partition and the rest is for >FreeBSD. The MBR record is such that if I press F1 I will boot with >plain, old DOS and if I press F2 I will boot with FreeBSD. > >What would happen if I installed Windows95 in the DOS partition? Any >precautions I should (can?) take? Or should I just forget it? > I've tried, and Win95 wipe out the MBR. I did a long way to fixed this: add a 2nd hard disk, install a minimal FreeBSD on 2nd harddisk. (need to specify partition for both harddisk, but just creating new label on 2nd.) Anyone had a better way to recover FreeBSD MBR?