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From: edmond@shipway.u-net.com (Edmond Shipway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: win95 and FreeBSD on same disk ?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:48:35 GMT
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On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:24:02 -0500, "Richard J. Finn"
<rfinn@Houston-InterWeb.COM> wrote:

>
>	Yep.  I do it all the time.  Not sure about FAT32 though... I do know
>that DOS has to be in like the first 512 blocks of the primary hard
>drive for it to boot properly or something.
>

If we're just talking about plain old windows 95 (FAT16), does the
disk need to be set to normal (CHS) mode in the bios, thus restricting
the size of the dos partition to 500MB ?


Jim.