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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD + NT-- anyone done it? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:21:03 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3177852F.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> References: <960418162400-rrwood@io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: rlb.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: rrwood@io.org Roy Wood wrote: > > I've got DOS on my first IDE drive, FreeBSD on the second, and I'd like > to install WindozeNT on a SCSI drive. The FreeBSD boot manager (can't > remember the real name-- sorry) is wonderful, but can it handle a setup > like I describe above? And will it get overwritten by the NT install > procedure, forcing me to reinstall it? > > Anybody done this before? I've seen lots of postings about getting > FreeBSD to coexist peacefully with OS/2, but not NT. > > Thanks in advance..... > > -Roy I have used the OSBS boot manager (on the 2.1R CD) to setup multiple boot parts for DOS,NT,UNIXWARE, and FREEBSD across 2 disks. Of course FreeBSD is the only one that can boot across on the second disk. Linux can't do that unless you have some of the boot startup code on the primary or floppy disk. Ron -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin: rlb@mindspring.com gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu * GSU CS Grad Student:http://www2.gsu.edu/~gs01rlb/ * Home: 770-992-8877 Work: 770-263-2273 ****************************************************************************