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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Kevin Lane wrote:

> I was looking through the web site here as I'm considering installing
> FreeBSD onto my system. I was hoping to run it as well as Windows NT 4.0
> on different partitions of the same drive. However, I'm interested in
> knowing whether or not it will add FreeBSD to the start menu of NT's
> bootup sequence. If it doesn't do it automatically, is there a way to do
> this? I apologize if this is explained during the installation, but I
> didn't see any references to NT specifically.. and as it has a different
> file system than MS-Dos, I do not want to create any conflicts. Thank
> you.


Ok. First boot from a dos diskette (version 6.2) for example.
at the prompt, type fdisk /mbr 
this should write a boot sector on the disk without the NT selection.

after that run the bootinst from the FreeBSD/tools (cd).

On boot, the machine should ask: NT, DOS, FreeBSD...