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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!inews.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!yoyodyne From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD + NT-- anyone done it? Date: Thu, 02 May 96 17:22:46 GMT Organization: Not an Intel spokesman Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4mar16$t6_002@sc.intel.com> References: <960418162400-rrwood@io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: yoyodyne.sc.intel.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <960418162400-rrwood@io.org>, Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> 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. OK, here's what my boot.ini looks like: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows NT" C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD" The trick is to create the bootsect.bsd file using the dd command while in BSD: dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 and then copy it to c:\bootsect.bsd in the FAT or NTFS partition. Remember you can't mount an NTFS partition directly and will have to transfer it via floppy in that case. Also, this setup assumes all the boot partitions are on the same disk. Also, my home system is triple-booting between NT, FreeBSD, and Linux by an extension of this procedure. John Reece Not an Intel spokesman