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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Co-Exist with Windows 95 Date: 5 Dec 1995 00:03:46 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4a0292$oun@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> References: <30BEA08D.3C9F@city-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo-fddi.prz.tu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Hi, robsmith@city-net.com wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a Pentium system which has a 1 gig disk with 2 > partitions, one of which contains NetBSD. It has the OS-BS boot > manager installed. > > When I installed Windows 95 (in the DOS Partition), it wiped out the > OS-BS boot manager. Is there any way to reinstall it without trashing > the NetBSD partition (which I never touched). Yes, just run OS-BS setup again. BTW, Windows 95 overwrites "only" the Master Boot Record (MBR). If you run the OS-BS setup again and re-create the boot menu also the OS-BS MBR will be re-installed. > Is there any boot manager that I could install into it's own partition > to avoid these problems next time? I think that 95 tramped on the > OS-BS boot manager, which contained the starting block of NetBSD on > the second partition. OS-BS never copies any boot blocks. It holds just "pointers" to the boot blocks in the partitions which you add to the boot menu. Hence you can change or re-install it over and over again as you like. Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram <thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de> Germany: 0 30 31421171 PRZ TU Berlin <wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de> abroad: +49 30 31421171 EANTC WWW: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____