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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:35:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Erazo <erazo@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows XP...
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It will boot pretty much any OS, but NTFS partitions just show up as
????? or something like that... it'll still boot them, but they show up
wierd... you could always install os-bs that or some other bootmanager
though.

Ken 

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Erazo wrote:

> Before I install FreeBSD 4.4, I need to know if the boot program that
> comes with it will succesfully recognize and boot Windows XP
> (installed on a different (1st) hard drive using the NTSF file
> system). Also will the boot program boot my instalation of SuSE Linux
> 7.0, it is already installed, on a seperate partition, on the same
> (2nd) harddrive that I plan to put FreeBSD on. Will I be able to
> succesfully tri-boot between these operating systems? Or, if not, can
> I boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk (this is the way I boot Linux)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS. Does FreeBsd support USB mice? (specifically the Logitech wheel mouse)
> 


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