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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!nntp.portal.ca!news From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Making Windows NT & FreeBSD Cohabit Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:04:22 -0700 Organization: Client of Intenet Portal Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31EEDF16.5110@portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: d162.portal.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; U) I posted a message on this newsgroup a while ago, requesting information about whether it was possible to install Windows NT on my PC (on which I had Windoze 95 installed in one partition) without damaging FreeBSD. Well, no-one seemed to know (or care), so I went ahead and did it. The result? Well, I installed Windows NT over my Windoze 95 installation, rebooted the machine, and held my breath. The FreeBSD boot manager remained completely unaffected, and Windows NT installed its boot manager underneath it--when you press F1 for DOS, you get the NT boot manager, from which you can choose whether you want to boot normally or in VGA mode. I didn't convert the file system to NTFS, because I was concerned that this would prevent me from booting FreeBSD ever again. Anyone know for sure? So if, like me, you need Windows AND FreeBSD, go ahead and install NT in your DOS partition! It works!