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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:19:53PM +0200, rusel wrote:
> Hello, 
> bitch# uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD bitch 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18
> UTC 2004     root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> i386
> 
> I`ve got fbsd & winxp, now I have to format this stupid microshit coz
> its still reeboting itself ... and now, how to safely reinstall
> winshit without crushing mbr ...

You can't. It will always overwrite the MBR. But you can just mark
your FreeBSD slice as bootable afterwards to get back into FreeBSD
after the reinstall.

Joerg