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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bad.. Win95... Bad, Bad, Bad... WHACK!!!
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:11:45 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Clint Wolff <clint_w@colorado.cirrus.com>

Clint Wolff wrote:
> I did a foolish thing and installed Windows 95 on my DOS partition,
> and it also overwrote the really nifty boot selector that FreeBSD 2.0.5
> installed... Sigh...

Look in the tools/ subdirectory of any FreeBSD release.  You'll see
bootinst.exe, which should be run under DOS (with boot.bin as an
argument, I believe) to reinstall the MBR boot manager.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project