From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 12:42:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366DB37B404 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ents01 (t2o90p65.telia.com [195.67.216.185]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA11878; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:41:55 +0100 (CET) From: "James Wilde" To: "Janko van Roosmalen" Cc: Subject: RE: Install NT and return Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:42:14 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If I were you I would get a spare IDE disk to install NT and leave the > FreeBSD SCSI untouched. How much does a 10 Gb IDE disk cost these days? An interesting suggestion, Janko, but not that easy in practice. I have a number of IDE disks lying around in fact, and have rejected that idea since there is something a little strange about the bios on this machine. If an IDE disk is plugged into the mobo, it doesn't seem to see the SCSI adapter at all. I suppose I will just have to bite the bullet and kill my FreeBSD setup. I do have the disks, so it's no big deal to reinstall, and I haven't done much configuring of this machine yet. I just thought there was a method of saving the mbr and/or boot directory to floppy and restoring it later but I haven't been able to identify it in the archives. Thanks, anyway. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message