Re: Dual boot

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From: Jake
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00

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I have NT installed on a 1 gig NTFS primary partition
FreeBSD installed on a 500 meg primary
and DOS installed on a 500 meg primary
I can boot any of the three using NT boot loader
I installed NT first, then FreeBSD, then DOS
I had to use FreeBSD to make the files bootsect.bsd and bootsect.dos
then put them in boot.ini, and voila!
I can see all partitions in all operating systems
NT see my Dos partition as D:
FreeBSD doesn't support NTFS, but I can mount my dos partition from
/dev/wd0s4
and in Dos I can see my NT partition as e: using ntfsdos.exe

Works great!  Just be sure to make the dos partition in dos, not NT

I don't know where the rumour came from that c: has to be NTFS if you
want to boot dos from D: (DOS sees it as C: of course)

You just need to be able to make the bootsector files your self.

Good luck!

Jake

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From: Jake <3rlk1@qlink.queensu.ca>
Subject: Re: Dual boot
Date: 1997/06/06
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