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From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager and Windows NT disk manager
Date: 27 Nov 1996 13:24:20 GMT
Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College
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In <329B9EEE.5189@OntheNet.com.au> Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes:
>I've been told that writing an NT "signature" on a Unix partition will
>trash it, so don't do it!!!

Well I let NT 4.0 write its signatures to disks which contained FreeBSD
partitions, and nothing was affected.

--
Colin Dalton 
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage.  But
this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.