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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager and Windows NT disk manager Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:52:46 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <329B9EEE.5189@OntheNet.com.au> References: <57e759$a0e@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Stefan Witzel <switzel@uni-goettingen.de> Stefan Witzel wrote: > > Hello, > > I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Windows NT 3.51 on my hard disk and use > the FreeBSD boot manager. When I call the NT disk manager it tells me > that it wants to write a signature to the disk. Does this overwrites the > boot manager? > I've been told that writing an NT "signature" on a Unix partition will trash it, so don't do it!!! > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Stefan Witzel switzel@uni-goettingen.de > Universitaet Goettingen / Stabsstelle DV ------------------------- > Gosslerstrasse 5-7 fon: +49 551 394160 > 37073 Goettingen fax: +49 551 399612 > Germany ------------------------- Tony