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Subject: Re: help please!!
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From: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:54:01 +0200
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fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) schrieb:

> order not to wipe out your Win95 installation. It would be best to find a
> fellow student at your college who is familiar with doing multi-OS
> installations with FreeBSD. I always install FreeBSD as the only OS, so
> I'm afraid I can't help you much there.

First installing Windows 95 (or finding it on the system where to
install the new OS) and then installing FreeBSD works.  One just has
to be careful to only use free disk space (preferably) or now unused
dos partitions for installing it.  I think if one is used to install
FreeBSD that shouldn't be hard.  Everything else is like FreeBSD
alone.

A BIOS MBR virus checker - who might prevent writing the BootManager
MBR - should probably be turned off if it all the time gives an awful
sound when the MBR gets written.  I noticed this is a problem when I
did this on a machine with such a BIOS.  Every time BootManager tried
to record the chosen OS (it will be the default on the next reboot) it
got activated.  :-(

Stefan.
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