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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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