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From: syscom@singnet.com.sg (Brian Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What happens if I install Win95
Date: 9 Sep 1995 16:49:14 GMT
Organization: Syscom Technology
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In article <428bcl$1l9@gol1.gol.com>, michael@gnj.or.jp says...
>
>My 1 GB SCSI hard disk has a 100MB DOS 6.2 partition and the rest is for 
>FreeBSD. The MBR record is such that if I press F1 I will boot with 
>plain, old DOS and if I press F2 I will boot with FreeBSD.
>
>What would happen if I installed Windows95 in the DOS partition? Any 
>precautions I should (can?) take? Or should I just forget it?
>
I've tried, and Win95 wipe out the MBR.

I did a long way to fixed this: add a 2nd hard disk, install a minimal 
FreeBSD on 2nd harddisk. (need to specify partition for both harddisk, but 
just creating new label on 2nd.)  Anyone had a better way to recover 
FreeBSD MBR?