Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 07:57:08 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: bertodell <bertodell@inetone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd Installation help Message-ID: <3695BA54.3B739D28@uk.radan.com> References: <36955DAB.E1475F41@inetone.net>
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bertodell wrote: > > Hi,I'm planning on installing freebsd,and I have windows95 on my primary > hard drive with NT Server on my second hard drive. On the second hard > drive as well, I'm planning to put freebsd on a 1.8 gig partition. What > I need to know is this: will there be any problems? do I have to edit > the boot.ini so I can have the freebsd option as the third boot on the > boot menu? Do you have any suggestions for me so I can make sure > everything works right? I want this to go as smoothly as possible :) Adding FreeBSD to the NT boot mangler is easy. Basically you just copy (using dd(1) ) the first sector of the FreeBSD slice into a file and edit boot.ini. It is explained in the FAQ. BTW there is a driver for reading NTFS from FreeBSD http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs . HTH > > Thanks, > > Bert O'Dell > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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