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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!peg.apc.org!usenet From: "Hanns B. Wetzel" <hbw@interbay.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD + NT-- anyone done it? Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:48:28 +0000 Organization: InterBayNet Lines: 56 Sender: hbw@peg.apc.org Message-ID: <317A208C.794BDF32@interbay.net.au> References: <960418162400-rrwood@io.org> <3177852F.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: t5.dialup.peg.apc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Ron Bolin wrote: > > Roy Wood wrote: > > > > I've got DOS on my first IDE drive, FreeBSD on the second, and I'd like > > to install WindozeNT on a SCSI drive. The FreeBSD boot manager (can't > > remember the real name-- sorry) is wonderful, but can it handle a setup > > like I describe above? And will it get overwritten by the NT install > > procedure, forcing me to reinstall it? > > > > Anybody done this before? I've seen lots of postings about getting > > FreeBSD to coexist peacefully with OS/2, but not NT. > > > > Thanks in advance..... > > > > -Roy > > I have used the OSBS boot manager (on the 2.1R CD) to setup > multiple boot parts for DOS,NT,UNIXWARE, and FREEBSD across > 2 disks. Of course FreeBSD is the only one that can boot > across on the second disk. Linux can't do that unless you have > some of the boot startup code on the primary or floppy disk. > > Ron > > -- > **************************************************************************** > Ron Bolin: rlb@mindspring.com gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu > * > GSU CS Grad Student:http://www2.gsu.edu/~gs01rlb/ > * > Home: 770-992-8877 Work: 770-263-2273 > **************************************************************************** Want to do something similar but a little different, ie. install NT 3.51 Server on on my first hard drive which currently had DOS/Windows 3.11 on it. Am running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my second hard drive, and the boout manager (not OSBS) manages this as it should. My question is, will NT overwrite the master boot record during install, will it allow multiple boots across drived and pick up the FreeBSD drive. If not, can OSBS replace the FreeBSD boot manager on the fly or must it be done at install time. I've spent a lot of time customising etc. my FreeBSD system and don't want to have to do it all over again. You might say why not install NT on another machine. Well, I want to run httpd 3.0 and NT Server 3.51 both from the same machine so as to compare them. Also I got NT at one of those Microsoft OEM briefings and otherb than the doc etc. files on the cd, there is no support from Microsoft or written documentation. Can anyone help with this. If so, would be greatly appreciated. Hanns -- _____________________________________________________________________ Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) Hervey Bay Qeensland, Australia Tel (071) 25 2872___________________________________Fax (071) 28 1877