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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.interport.net!news.interport.net!not-for-mail From: deng@interport.net (Daniel Eng) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Windows NT and FreeBSD Date: 16 Oct 1995 16:05:40 -0400 Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <45uduk$ndn@interport.net> References: <DGI48B.A73@gateway.dcc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: interport.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. : When I load one of the operating systems I'm there for a few hours so : I don't really need a quick way to go from one OS to another. I just : need a way that is simple with little risk of problems. I'm currently running NT 3.51 Workstation and FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a 1GB EIDE drive. I'm using the OS-BS program (beta actually) from the CD-ROM to boot into NT's multiboot program (giving DOS and NT) and directly into FreeBSD. Not very elegant, but it works. You end up having to use two boot loaders. However this method just uses the MBR and I was able to install it after loading NT and FreeBSD. Dan -- Daniel Eng * deng@interport.net * http://www.interport.net/~deng * [Certified OS/2 Engineer] | There are two things in life that are eternal: [Team OS/2] | God's word and people. [Gateway Users International] | Invest in those things that are eternal...