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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd and win95osr2 (fat32)
Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:00:54 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> wrote:
> charles hanna wrote:
> > 
> > > the coexistance of win95osr2 and freebsd?
> > 
> > I've succeded in getting FreeBSD 2.1.5 running with win95 on the same
> > hard drive, but I have each on it's own partition. I use the boot
> > managaer that came with the Walnut Creek CDROM.
> > 
> > Glenn.

> Is that OS-BS (135 or Beta) or BootEasy?
> Both are on the 2.1.5 CDROM.  My employer
> wants me to install W95 sooner or later.
> So I'm bracing myself. :(

They both work; but be prepared for installing the boot manager after
you've installed Win95, which will destroy the master boot record.
Probably doing it from a bootable floppy is best; Win95 itself will
not let you write to the MBR.

Annelise