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From: "Eric" <swive@getnet.com>
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Subject: TRIPLE BOOT--fbsd/w98/w2k
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:43:36 -0800
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Hi,

I currently have FBSd and W2K living in harmony.  I am not sure which boot
loader I am currently using, but it is managing fine.  I now want to add a
new partition in the beginning of my disk and install windows 98.  however,
i am afraid i am going to wipe out freebsd--i mean make it unbootable.  i am
using partition magic to make the new partition in the first 500mb of my
first hard drive.

searching the archives, i see some nice tricks from recovering from mistakes
in this kind of procedure.  however, I want to do it right from the
beginning.  so i am inquiring now before i attempt the procedure.

what is the proper way to add w98 to this os orgy?  do i need to make a boot
disk floppy to make sure that, if all else fails, at least the floppy can
still boot my fbsd os?  If I do indeed need to make a boot floppy, do I just
use the image at
<ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/>, or
do I need to do something different?

(ps--i also have boot magic, if that would make things easier)
(pps--fbsd 4.4 release)

thanks,

eric


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