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From: marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu (Marcus I. Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Win95 Install wipes out FreeBSD boot manager
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:27:06 LOCAL
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In article <46o59i$a8b@tampa2.is.ge.com> jrs@tampa2.is.ge.com (Jim Smithson) 
writes:>From: jrs@tampa2.is.ge.com (Jim Smithson)
>Subject: Win95 Install wipes out FreeBSD boot manager
>Date: 26 Oct 1995 10:17:22 -0400

>I installed Win95 on the DOS partition which shares the drive with FreeBSD
>after installation I no longer am prompted for a choice of OS's to boot.

>Can I use this procedure (from the FreeBSD Handbook) to reinstall the boot
>manager? 

If you're referring to the program that asks:

F1  HPFS
F2  DOS
F3  FREEBSD

(or something like that)
it is called Boot-Easy and you can find it at 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/bteasy14.zip

Extract it and install it.  It goes in quickly and easily.

That's all I had to do when Win95 wiped mine out.

Good luck.


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