Subject: Re: dual-booting a WinXP box?
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/2004 11:11:10
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:43:23PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> I'm about to install NetBSD on the second partition of a Windows XP=20
> box.  What's the best way to make it dual-boot?  Is there any reason=20
> not to use the NetBSD MBR stuff?  (To date, I've had no problem with=20
> the NetBSD boot on a Win2k machine.)

If you're not fearing a WinXP virus patching the NetBSD partition(s), I=20
don't see why you shouldn't do it that way.

Regards,
	-is

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