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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
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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