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From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual boot with NT, and other stuff...
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 23:11:02 GMT
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In article <5joemu$a1d@nntp.interaccess.com>, ras <ras@interaccess.com> wrote:
>1. Is it possible to have FreeBSD (2.2.1) reside on the same box as NT 
>(dual scsi drives, BSD on the 1st, NT on the 2nd)

Yes.

>1b. If so, how?

You save the boot sector from your BSD partition into a bootsect.xxx file on
the partition containing NT's boot loader, and add an entry into its boot.ini
file to create a boot menu entry for it.  For info see:

  http://www.devious/com/freebsd/

The above site also explains how to change FreeBSD's boot sector if it is
not on the first drive.

>2. Please point me in the direction of configing BSD to see my NEC scsi 
>rom for install (on a 2940UW)

It will "just work" when you boot using the FreeBSD boot floppy.  If you
only have the CD, create the boot floppy by booting into DOS and running
makeflp.bat in the root directory of the CD.
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