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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.109.159.3!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!not-for-mail From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual boot with NT, and other stuff... Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:51:41 GMT Organization: private site ``powered by FreeBSD'', see http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5jvsmd$hh2$3@klemm.gtn.com> References: <5joemu$a1d@nntp.interaccess.com> <E99pqE.Fw@slugvine.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39831 In article <E99pqE.Fw@slugvine.demon.co.uk>, jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) writes: > In article <5joemu$a1d@nntp.interaccess.com>, ras <ras@interaccess.com> wrote: >>1. Is it possible to have FreeBSD (2.2.1) reside on the same box as NT >>(dual scsi drives, BSD on the 1st, NT on the 2nd) > > Yes. > >>1b. If so, how? > > You save the boot sector from your BSD partition into a bootsect.xxx file on > the partition containing NT's boot loader, and add an entry into its boot.ini > file to create a boot menu entry for it. For info see: > > http://www.devious/com/freebsd/ > > The above site also explains how to change FreeBSD's boot sector if it is > not on the first drive. Better is to install NT and then FreeBSD. The FreeBSD boot manager then boots FreeBSD or NT, which means, it calls NT bootmanager from where you can boot NT and Win95/DOS as usual ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<