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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news1.infoave.net!usenet From: "WaLNuT" <jasonbl@skybest.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD, 95, and NT on the same drive Date: 10 Mar 1997 21:38:04 GMT Organization: Info Avenue INTERNET Access Lines: 45 Message-ID: <01bc2d9b$a1a5f500$290e4ace@walnut> References: <01bc2b6e$93a21080$860e85ce@cwoodrow> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-1.r1.ncbldw.infoave.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36881 here's how to get NT's boot manager to boot bsd: when you install bsd, it will ask you what boot manager to use, tell it to leave the boot sector alone. after the instalation, FreeBSD will boot. mount a floppy on, say /floppy. then do this: dd if /dev/? of=/floppy/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 where /dev/? is the dev name of your bsd partition reboot on a dos boot disk and use FDisk to make your NT partition active. copy bootsect.bsd from the floppy into c:\ then edit boot.ini as in this example: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows NT 4.00" c:\="DOS" c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" if this doesnt work, i probably cant help you any more im new to bsd myself, and got this information from a faq somewhere, and hope you can make use of it. Chris Woodrow <cwoodrow@sprintmail.com> wrote in article <01bc2b6e$93a21080$860e85ce@cwoodrow>... > 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 > >