Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:45:13 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Tom Smith" <ace@castle.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about boot manager Message-ID: <199606150845.BAA00937@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:20:38 -0000." <199606140023.UAA18514@lance.castle.net>
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-------- > Now, I know the boot manager would > have to go on DISK1, but I can't seem to find a stright answer about > whether the boot manager will like this. It would need to boot DISK1 > and DISK2 (2 OS's). The reason I'm wondering is because I've heard > of problems with large hard disks. I seem to be in a sort of unique > situation in that I'm not installing the OS to the large hard disk, > but the boot manager has to go there. My question is if the boot > manager will work right. It would need to boot Win95 on the large > disk (the whole disk) and FreeBSD on the small disk. Any ideas? This is similar to my situation. Install the boot manager on the FIRST disk; booteasy will pick up the second disk automatically. I personally use OS/2's Boot Manager, and give good marks to OS-BS over Booteasy. Matter of preference. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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