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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fdisk and boot manager?
Date: 30 Sep 1996 22:28:10 GMT
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james.card@ntc.nokia.com (James Card) wrote:

> Can fdisk be used to reinstall the BSD boot manager?

No.

> I have installed Win95 (after FreeBSD) and now I have

Your fault.  One doesn't do this.

> to use DOS' and FreeBSD's fdisk to switch the active
> partitiion.  I would like to reinstall the boot manager
> but don't want to clobber the current setup trying
> to figure it out.

It's a separate DOS program, get it from the tools/ subdir of the
CDROM.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)