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From: wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Dual Boot - Win 95 & FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 14:11:24 GMT
Organization: Telstra Internet
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I have Win 95 on a 1Gb disk and have just installed FreeBSD on a 2nd
disk (as a FreeBSD partition).

I have OnTrack Disk Manager on the 1st disk (older ISA/IDEsystem).

I would like to be able to boot and choose between Win 95 or FreeBSD
but am reluctant to install the Boot Manager and risk losing On Track
and most of my 1 Gb disk.

What's the best way to go ?
Can fbsdboot.exe be of help ?
Is their a floppy boot option like Linux that will kick off the boot
from the appropriate disk ?

Many thanks