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From: mcurry@fred.net ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd and win95osr2 (fat32)
Date: 22 Jan 1997 00:43:51 GMT
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Annelise Anderson (andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) wrote:
: 
: 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.

Fdisk the partitions as required; install Win95; boot a DOS6.2 diskette
and install Booteasy from the floppy drive under DOS6.2. Works fine, lasts
a long time. OSBSBETA also works, as you say.

mc