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From: salvet@anxur.dcs.muni.cz (Zdenek Salvet)
Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD and Windows 95 - possible?
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:19:34 GMT
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rickb@iaw.on.ca (Rick Byers) writes:
>I'm planning on putting NetBSD 1.0/i386 on my computer at home. I'll be
>botting dos as well, but I'd like to put Windows 95 on also. I know, I
>know. I hate it - I really do - but some things require it so if I can
>do it, it wouldn't hurt.
>I've heard that Win95 messes up the MBR, making it diffcult to multi-boot
>with it. First of all, is this true? And secondly, is there any way to
>boot Win95 with any other operating system, specifically NetBSD - or
>Linux.?
You should reinstall your boot manager (os-bs, bteasy) after
Windows 95 installation.
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Zdenek Salvet salvet@ics.muni.cz
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