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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help needed: Install Win95/FreeBSD Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:01:21 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <312971C1.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <4fv32p$ph3@merlion.singnet.com.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Active Dreamer <gimwee@www.asia1.com.sg> Active Dreamer wrote: > Windows 95 from a vendor soon and would like to know if there is a way > of installing Win95 over DOS without touching the Boot Manager as well > as the FreeBSD partition. Is that possible? If so, how does one go about Not as far as I know, no. The Win95 installation will blow away your boot manager (thanks, Windows) and you'll have to reinstall it later from DOS. See the BTEASY executable in the tools/ directory on the CDROM (or on our FTP site). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project