Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 14:52:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: elvislives@usa.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from NT4 Message-ID: <199701032052.OAA01950@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <32CC297D.47DE@tinet.ie> from David FitzGerald at "Jan 2, 97 09:32:45 pm"
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In a previous message, David FitzGerald said: > Hi! > I have recently installed FreeBSD and am having trouble installing many > parts of it, but am steadily getting there. Half the fun is learning I > suppose! > > There is one part that baffles me though... > I am running WindozeNT 4 Workstation also. > > NT takes up the whole of an 850meg IDE hard drive, and FreeBSD has 500 > megs of the second part of another IDE hard drive. The other partition > being a dos partition, soon to be converted to NTFS. > > I want to use NT's boot manager to boot up, but could not figure out the > correct syntax for the line required in boot.ini > There is a utility called bootpart that will do it for you. It works well. You can get it from the NT Freeware CD from Walnut Creek. Look on ftp.cdrom.com:/.12/win/nt/intel/diskutil. Paul. -- It's impossible to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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