From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 23:58:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18906 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zyWnq-0006br-00; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 07:57:55 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id HAA01840; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 07:57:19 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01199; Fri, 8 Jan 99 07:57:17 GMT Message-Id: <3695BA54.3B739D28@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 07:57:08 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: bertodell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd Installation help References: <36955DAB.E1475F41@inetone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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