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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!web3.tcd.ie!csdalton From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager and Windows NT disk manager Date: 27 Nov 1996 13:24:20 GMT Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College Lines: 12 Message-ID: <57hfe4$8q9@web3.tcd.ie> References: <57e759$a0e@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <329B9EEE.5189@OntheNet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf2.tcd.ie X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #8 (NOV) In <329B9EEE.5189@OntheNet.com.au> Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes: >I've been told that writing an NT "signature" on a Unix partition will >trash it, so don't do it!!! Well I let NT 4.0 write its signatures to disks which contained FreeBSD partitions, and nothing was affected. -- Colin Dalton If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.