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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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