On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:11:51PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a PII with Windows NT on the first disk drive (wd0) and NetBSD
> 1.4.1 on the second disk drive (wd1). I put a 66 MB DOS partition at the
> beginning of wd1 so I can boot a minimal DOS and hold the distribution;
> the reset of the disk is for NetBSD.
> 
> I do not want to touch the WinNT disk. Currently, I boot the NetBSD system
> from the install floppy (hit the space bar then type "boot wd1a:netbsd").
> 
> If I want to improve things, I have two options.
> 
> 1) One of you could convince me that it is safe to install a boot selector
>    on the first disk. It would have to be free (preferably, one of the
>    boot selectors from the NetBSD distribution). I am not convinced this
>    is safe and am suspicious of WinNT (especially since I am running the
>    Windows 2000 Beta 3).

I don't know about Windows 98 or 2000, but I've tried OS-BS with Windows
NT.  The Beta version (2.08, I think) gave me lots of trouble, because
WinNT would either choke on it or overwrite something in it; I wrote to the
author, Thomas Wolfram, about it, and he acknowledged the problem and said
it should be taken care of in the newer (commercial) version.

So instead I reverted to OS-BS version 1.35.  This version doesn't have the
nice features of the Beta version, but at least it works with WinNT.  There
is only one thing you have to remember: do NOT let WinNT's Disk
Administrator save any partition information!  Otherwise it will corrupt
OS-BS.

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