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From: "Hanns B. Wetzel" <hbw@interbay.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Windows NT Server 3.51 & FreeBSD Boot Manager
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:50:02 +0000
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-- Am planning to install Windows NT Server 3.51 on my first hard drive
where DOS & Windows now reside. FreeBSD 2.0.5 resides on my second hard
drive with a portion of the first hard drive reserved as swap space for
FreeBSD. I used fips for that and vnconfig so as to be able to use the
Windows permanent swap file also as FreeBSD swap space thanks to advice
from Jordan Hubbard.

What I want to do now is install NT, but maintain the existing boot
manager (it is not the OSBS boot manager however) and the fips created
partition (slice) so I don't loose the ability to boot into FreeBSD.

Does anyone know whether installing NT trashes the existing master boot
record, or can it be installed so as to leave the MBR alone, or does its
own boot manager replace the FreeBSD one.

I'm asking these questions because I got a CD from one of those Microsoft
OEM briefings with NT Server etc. on it called "The Web Site Construction
Kit", which is not supported by Microsoft, and has no manuals except what
is on the CD.

I'm already running Cern httpd 3.0 under FreeBSD and want to compare it
with NT Server 3.51 by running them both with the same hardware.

Many thanks in advance.
_____________________________________________________________________
Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) Hervey Bay Qeensland, Australia 
Tel (071) 25 2872___________________________________Fax (071) 28 1877