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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!132.205.106.4!newsflash.concordia.ca!sunqbc.risq.net!news1.bellglobal.com!sympatico.ca!not-for-mail From: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Win95 dual boot Date: 8 Feb 1997 02:24:06 GMT Organization: Sympatico Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5dgo46$88h$1@news1.sympatico.ca> References: <32F17FCB.52F1@pair.com> <5d00ou$snk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E58LIq.6o8@cs.fredonia.edu> Reply-To: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp1789.on.sympatico.ca X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35242 In article <E58LIq.6o8@cs.fredonia.edu>, mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes: >: Win95 doesn't like to co-exist with other systems, hence it clobbers >: your boot selector. Install it first, and FreeBSD afterwards. > > > It definitely does. If this happens, you can use your FreeBSD >install disk and go about as if you are installing the FreeBSD system >again EXCEPT do NOT mount any file systems. This has the effect of >re-installing the boot selector again. I once tried this. I found that my disk had also been re-labeled and I had to do a re-install of everything. That was with 2.0.5, and it might have been my fault. Bottom line though is that this method is a little dangerous. > Just thought I'd mention this in case anyone else runs into the >same situation. Also would like to know if there is an easier way to do >this from the install diskette? > I had to do it again just a few days ago. This time I used the DOS based booteasy installation program from the 2.1 CD-ROM. It ran fine in Windows95 DOS mode and is amply documented. I recommend this approach. The DOS utilities, including the booteasy installer, are also available on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. ============================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca> Ottawa, ON