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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: Windows NT Server 3.51 & FreeBSD Boot Manager Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:21:10 +0000 Organization: InterBayNet Lines: 33 Sender: hbw@peg.apc.org Message-ID: <317B6BA6.167EB0E7@interbay.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: v24.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) 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 -- _____________________________________________________________________ Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) Hervey Bay Qeensland, Australia Tel (071) 25 2872___________________________________Fax (071) 28 1877