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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: dhagan@vt.edu (Daniel Hagan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot - Win 95 & FreeBSD Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:23:38 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 33 Message-ID: <49gn7b$rc0@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <491rsk$e8b@fullofruit.aarnet.edu.au> <30b557f4.3527526@news.enter.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: asm4-3.sl032.cns.vt.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 dh@enter.net (Daniel Hauer) wrote: >Might be a better idea to use a boot disk to boot the kernel on the >second disk...... To my knowlege the boot manager overwrites the MBR. >I use both win 95 and freebsd, using the boot manager, but I installed >win 95 first, and then free bsd, and I dont use ontrack on this 540, >but then the dos partition ends at cylinder 520 and the freebsd >starts.. >you could boot freebsd from your 1st hard disk if your dos partttion >ends below 528 MB, and your root partition starts below cylinder 1024 >(<528MB) > dh > Just thought you should know that Win95 will delete your FreeBSD partition if you ever decide to use the Uninstall feature. To be more specific, if you installed Win95 and then used a program like FIPS to split the Win partition and then installed FreeBSD, when Win95 uninstalls it will return your harddrive to it's original PRE-WIN95 condition (i.e. no partitions on it at all) and bye bye FreeBSD. Now, if you didn't use FIPS then you may be OK, however I would be wary. Win95 may delete the FreeBSD partition just because it wasn't there to begin with. Till later... Dan ---------------------------- Daniel Hagan "Back in a minute" CS major, Va. Tech --Godot dhagan@vt.edu or http://acm.vt.edu/~dhagan/ PGP key available on request