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From: "Keith W." <kwoody@citytel.netNO-SPAM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Killing a FBSD partition properly...?
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:45:22 -0700
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> > Will boot mgr be a problem when I go and install bsd onto drive d:? I
> > assume that once I toast the bsd partition on drive c that bootmgr will
> > still be there asking which drive/os I want to boot into even though BSD
> > will no longer be on drive c:?
> 
> No, it won't even see the partition as a FreeBSD one once you make it a
> DOS extended part.

Yup, PM worked and now bootmgr does not have an entry for bsd, just dos 
or drive 2. Now one day when I have some free hours I'll be able to 
install bsd on drive 2.

Thanks for the reply.
Keith