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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: windows messing with boot manager X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 13 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E2uCFw.6wr@nonexistent.com> References: <32B881E8.518F@ucs.ubc.ca> <32B9FB1B.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> X-Trace: 851301499/4826 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:38:20 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32865 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : Helpdesk wrote: : > While I was going through the process of installing BSD I discovered : > that if I have to reinstall windows after BSD, windows will mess up the : > boot manager. (ie. I no longer have the option at start-up to boot : : Yeah, it's basically just become conventional wisdom that if you're : going to install both Win95 and FreeBSD on a box, you should install : Win95 first and then FreeBSD second. ;-) As was said to me the first(and thus far only) time I had to use W95, nine months after I started with FBSD, "a real operating system does not prepare you for Windows 95".