FreeBSD and WinNT

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Jul 19 12:45:29 PDT 2004


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Fractal <kantor_mult at mail.ru> wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.8 and I need to install on the same machine
> WindowsNT-like operating system. I tried to do this and installed it. But
> after recovering of BSD bootstrap loader using sysinstall I found that I
> cannot load Windows. Namely, there was two question signs ('??') in the
> second string of BSD loader menu (the first was 'FreeBSD') and after
> selecting it by F3 my computer rebooted. Windows should run on NTFS
> partition, not FAT. Can I do something and if yes, what?

I'm not sure I understand exactly what went wrong, but (in my experience)
things go much better if you install Windows first, then FreeBSD.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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