From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 05:58:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24549 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (ne.mediaone.net [24.128.1.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24544 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tatsu@mediaone.net) Received: from mediaone.net (tatsu.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.40.189]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA04437; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:57:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35D19192.4508C25@mediaone.net> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:58:59 -0400 From: Tatsu Ikeda X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot easy question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I just installed FreeBSD for the very first time, I am duly impressed! Took a lot of preparation, but when it came time to do it, the install went flawlessly. It seems like a great system, I haven't seen UNIX for several years. (Since my days at CMU) Anyway, since I now have 3 OS's on my computer, I thought, "What the heck, I'll see what linux is all about!" and decided to install it. I downloaded Redhat 5.1 and installed it. Unfortunately, boot easy won't "see" my linux partition on my hard drive (only one). So I have yet to boot linux. (I installed LILO on the boot sector, not in MBR, because I thought boot easy would be a better boot manager:) I know it should see all my partitions, because it even saw my NTFS partition, which had nothing on it, before I deleted it to make room for linux. Anyone have any experience with this? I have 4 partitions, FAT16 (with both NT and 95), BSD, linux, and linux Swap. I have to say, the FreeBSD installer was just as nice as Redhat's, plus it found my ethernet card. (linux didn't find it, grrr..) I thought Redhat's installer was a bit more "user-friendly", though. The descriptions of the packages were a nice touch. Not being to network sort of defeats the whole purpose though. Or boot it, for that matter. Sigh. Thanks so much, and thanks to the FreeBSD team for a great system. I'm having a lot of fun exploring BSD style UNIX! I'm writing this in Netscape 4, it's wicked cool. Please send any responses to tatsu@toth.com, Tatsu Ikeda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message