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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:00:46 -0400 (AST)
From:      Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Installing FreeBSD on a slice on WinNT machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030165039.25958A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca>

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Hi

I volunteered to setup FreeBSD for a friend. He has a fast Pentium running
WinNT and lots of disk space (one 8Gbyte drive divided in four partitions
- I'd be using one for FreeBSD) . Are there any possible pitfalls I could
hopefully avoid? I've setup about a dozen FreeBSD boxes so far, so I'm
pretty comfortable with the process. However, I've only installed to empty
drives or on partitions on Win95 machines.  

Also, will he be able to access files on the WinNT partitions? I know how
to mount a Win95 partition so FreeBSD can access it, but I'm not sure
about WinNT - I have no experience with it at all. How about Boot Manager?
Will WinNT work after I install FreeBSD's boot manager?

Any help would be most appreciated. 

Antonio
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