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Anybody done this before?  I've seen lots of postings about getting
FreeBSD to coexist peacefully with OS/2, but not NT.

Thanks in advance.....

-Roy

Ron

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Can anyone help with this.

If so, would be greatly appreciated.

Hanns
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> Want to do something similar but a little different, ie. install NT 3.51
> Server on on my first hard drive which currently had DOS/Windows 3.11 on
> it. Am running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my second hard drive, and the boout
> manager (not OSBS) manages this as it should. My question is, will NT
> overwrite the master boot record during install, will it allow multiple
> boots across drived and pick up the FreeBSD drive. If not, can OSBS
> replace the FreeBSD boot manager on the fly or must it be done at install
> time. I've spent a lot of time customising etc. my FreeBSD system and
> don't want to have to do it all over again. You might say why not install
> NT on another machine. Well, I want to run httpd 3.0 and NT Server 3.51
> both from the same machine so as to compare them. Also I got NT at one of
> those Microsoft OEM briefings and otherb than the doc etc. files on the
> cd, there is no support from Microsoft or written documentation.

  What I can tell you, though, is that after you install NT, do NOT, under
  any circumstances, run Disk Administrator.  It will wreck your partition
  mapping and OS/2's fdisk will be unable to make any changes to your drives.

  I hear that Microsoft knows about this problem, but I haven't heard if
  they've fixed it.  Anyone heard anything?

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I run NT 3.51 WS, Linux and FreeBSD on a three-harddisk system (with
Linux and FreeBSD sharing wd0, NT on sd0, and all three sharing
sd1). I boot with Lilo, which boots all three OSes just dandy.
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        [boot loader]
        timeout=30
        default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
        [operating systems]
        multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows NT"
        C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD"

The trick is to create the bootsect.bsd file using the dd command
while in BSD:

   dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1

and then copy it to c:\bootsect.bsd in the FAT or NTFS
partition.   Remember you can't mount an NTFS partition
directly and will have to transfer it via floppy in that case.
Also, this setup assumes all the boot partitions are
on the same disk.  

Also, my home system is triple-booting between NT, FreeBSD, and Linux
by an extension of this procedure.  

John Reece
Not an Intel spokesman