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#! rnews 2544 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!ihug.co.nz!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.netinfo.com.au!not-for-mail From: Peter Davie <pdavie@lemon.netinfo.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD, 95, and NT on the same drive Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:45:29 +1100 Organization: topic Systems Australia P/L Lines: 36 Message-ID: <33233D89.2527@lemon.netinfo.com.au> References: <01bc2b6e$93a21080$860e85ce@cwoodrow> NNTP-Posting-Host: spd.netinfo.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (WinNT; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36811 Chris Woodrow wrote: > > What is the best way to install FreeBSD, Windows 95 and WindowsNT on the > same hard drive? I have a 3 gig drive partitioned as 3 one gig partitions. > I have 95 on the first partition as FAT, NT on the second as NTFS, and the > third partition is currently formatted as NTFS. I would like to put > FreeBSD on the third partion. Should I reformat it to FAT or delete the > partition entirely before installing FreeBSD? Will installing FreeBSD > affect the NT boot manager? Will I be able to boot all three systems from > the NT boot manager? Any help is appreciated. > > Chris Woodrow > cwoodrow@sprintmail.com > Yes, you can delete any of the partitions and install FreeBSD in the hole which is left. The boot manager which is installed by FreeBSD will give you the option of booting FreeBSD or any of the other bootable partitions. I am happily using FreeBSD with NT 4.0 and Windows 95. The only catch I found was that if you want to start from scratch, Create a partition for FreeBSD first. When I installed NT, I installed Windows 95 then Windows NT and then discovered that the NT install had taken ALL of the available disk space and put it into an extended DOS partition. Of course, FreeBSD refuses to install into an extended partition. If you create the partition for FreeBSD first, then things will be OK. Note, this is only for first time installs of NT and is not necessary in your case. Peter -- Peter Davie Phone: +61 6 257 6500 e-mail: pdavie@netinfo.com.au Director Fax: +61 6 257 8922 snail: PO Box 53 topic Systems Australia http://www.netinfo.com.au/tsa Lyneham ACT 2602 1 Hall Street, Lyneham ACT 2602