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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech2!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!not-for-mail From: jjasen1@umbc.edu (John "E.R." Jasen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie: Can I dual boot Win95 and NetBSD/i386 ? Date: 7 Dec 1995 12:27:21 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4a785p$q8a@umbc8.umbc.edu> References: <4a6jc6$jtg@access1.bt.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: f-umbc8.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: jjasen1 Andy Duplain <duplaina@syntegra.bt.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, I am considering installing NetBSD-1.1/i386 on my PC at home, >which currently has Windows 95 installed on drive C:. I would like to >install NetBSD on drive D: and dual boot either Win95 (which itself can >dual boot to DOS) or NetBSD. Can this be done ? Yes, you can. You need some form of os-boot manager, of which, I think bteasy.exe can be found on the ftp.freebsd.org server? I'm sure someone will come along shortly and correct me. However, Win95 does have a nasty habit of munching master boot partitions, which means you have to reinstall it, etc., etc., etc., * It is a sad reflection of society when someone proficient in C, Perl, * * and HTML cannot even program their vcr to record 'Babylon 5'. * -- John Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu) -- Go ahead and sue UMBC for my views! They need a laugh!