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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual booting between FreeBSDand Win95
Date: 14 Feb 1997 03:07:10 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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[Posted and mailed]

In article <3301699f.14161936@nntp.sirius.com>,
	nwjohan@sirius.com (Nathan Johanson) writes:
> Hello
> 
> 
> Ii'm taking a class in Unix and would like to set up my PCr to dual
> boot between FreeBSD and Windows 95, but I'm unsure where to begin.  I
> did plenty of searching--but so far, i've only come up with info on
> how to boot between win95 and the previous operating systems (DOS and
> win 3.1).
> 
> Can someone point me to some online resources, or give me a few
> pointers on how to go about this?
> 
> Thanks much in advance.
> Please email responses as well.

FreeBSD will install, as an option, a simple, easy-to-use boot manager
that allows you to choose to boot from any of your active partitions.

I have FreeBSD and Windows 95 on separate drives, and it's trivially
simple to switch back and forth between them using this.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads