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From: Plyaskin Sergey <splyaski@cmp.com>
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Subject: Re: Win/NT and boot manager
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 19:01:00 PST
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> > From: Serge Plyaskin      splyaski@cmp.com
> > 1. I have FreeBSD 2.0 950210-SNAP installed on the drive C:
> > Now, I would like to set up Windows NT Workstation on the drive D:
> > Both are physical IDE drives. I like NT boot manager better.
>
> I recently did this with my -current test box.  I was unable to install
> NT on the second partition.  I had to install it on the first partition.
> FreeBSD lives on the second partition.  I used the FreeBSD boot manager.
>
> Now I can switch back and forth between two test environments, NT-recent
> and FreeBSD-current :-)
>
> I do notice that I must actually power off my box when I switch from
> NT to FreeBSD.  The 3c509 must not be reset properly by FreeBSD during
> boot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Hittinger
> bugs@win.net

This is strange. I was able to install NT on the second partition (drive D:) 
having DOS installed on the first one. After that, you may delete DOS or 
convert C: to NTFS, or whatever else. Does FreeBSD make the difference?

 -Serge