Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:00:15 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Patrick Anthofer <pata@teleweb.at>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows NT and Free BSD Message-ID: <36BBA22F.5606DA71@uk.radan.com> References: <199902060108.TAA77815@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly wrote: > > Patrick Anthofer writes: > > I have an Intel Pentium 133 / 32MB Ram and 2 HD with 2 partitions each. > > One Harddrive has got the NTFS and the other one has got FAT. > > I was wondering what would happen if I installed FREE BSD on one of the > > FAT Partitions. Would a MULTI OS BOOT Manager be created or something > > like that? > > You'd probably want to REPLACE one or two of the FAT partitions. Just > tell FreeBSD it can have it. :-) > > Mark Ovens pointed out there are instructions in the FreeBSD FAQ on how > to use NT as your boot loader, here is the URL: > > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ122.html#122 > > Personally, I left an empty partition at the start of my 9G HD, empty > for a year or two, until I broke down and put NT 4.0 there. *I* boot > into NT from BootEasy. > Now there's a neat trick :-), installing NT _after_ FreeBSD _and_ using BootEasy to boot it. How about documenting it. I always take the safe route, install M$ first as it stomps on the MBR because it assumes that there's only M$ OS's on the disk, whereas FreeBSD behaves itself and it's easy enough to dd the first 512 bytes of the FreeBSD slice into C:\BOOTSECT.BSD and edit C:\BOOT.INI. > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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