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From: chrislyt@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Lyttle)
Subject: Re: Win95 and FreeBSD
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:23:53 GMT
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sargo@metronet.com (sargo) wrote:

>I want to run WIN95 on my 1st 2 SCSI hard drives and FreeBSD on the 3rd.  It 
>installs ok but the boot manager never shows up and Win95 comes up every time.

>Maybe I did the install wrong.  But I suspect that it is the new modified fat 
>that WIN95 uses that is the problem.

>Has anyone gotten the 2 to work on the same system??  I'm a newbie on FreeBSD 
>and could use all the help I can get.

yes, I just installed FreeBSD 's boot manager while in fdisk and then
rebooted. Win95 seemed to need its io files reinstalled for some reson
tho. (that's the ones that you can retransfer by doing a:\sys c: from
your win95 fixit disk)

Chris