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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Windows NT and FreeBSD Date: 15 Oct 1995 19:01:18 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 19 Message-ID: <45rlpu$c3i@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <DGI48B.A73@gateway.dcc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Steve Moubray (smoubray@dcc.com) wrote: : I need to run MS-DOS, Windows NT and FreeBSD on one 4G SCSI drive. : What is the easiest way to get FreeBSD and Windows NT to co-exist? I : installed FreeBSD after Windows NT and even though I selected to leave : the boot record intact, FreeBSD ate it up and I could no longer run : NT. Luckily I made a backup. I have two ideas for you. First restore your Flexboot for MS-NT (you can use the Emergency Repair disk for this). 1. Use the install disk for FreeBSD and at the boot prompt enter the right things to boot from your harddisk. Granted this isn't really all that nice, but it does work and for a home user, really isn't that bad. 2. Get Booteasy (beasy*.zip) from the tools directory of the FreeBSD cdrom (or ftp site). Then install it. It should use the Booteasy boot block (if that is the right term here) when Booteasy gives you the DOS option. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)