From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 17:08:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04047 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:08:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04034 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-143.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.143]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA16060; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:08:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA77815; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:08:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902060108.TAA77815@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Patrick Anthofer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Windows NT and Free BSD In-reply-to: Message from Patrick Anthofer of "Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:01:38 +0100." <36BAEBB2.3BB7371E@teleweb.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:08:27 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Anthofer writes: > I have an Intel Pentium 133 / 32MB Ram and 2 HD with 2 partitions each. > One Harddrive has got the NTFS and the other one has got FAT. > I was wondering what would happen if I installed FREE BSD on one of the > FAT Partitions. Would a MULTI OS BOOT Manager be created or something > like that? You'd probably want to REPLACE one or two of the FAT partitions. Just tell FreeBSD it can have it. :-) Mark Ovens pointed out there are instructions in the FreeBSD FAQ on how to use NT as your boot loader, here is the URL: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ122.html#122 Personally, I left an empty partition at the start of my 9G HD, empty for a year or two, until I broke down and put NT 4.0 there. *I* boot into NT from BootEasy. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message