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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920184532.224E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32426597.611A@nation-net.com>

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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote:

> > Known bug.  The boot manager was installed to the second drive, which of
> > course doesn't help.  Install it yourself by grabbing the 'bootinst.exe'
> > and 'boot.bin' files out of /tools off of the CDROM or
> > ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/tools.  Then run 'bootinst' to put booteasy
> > on.
> > 
> > You'll have to do this from DOS.  I assume WinNT has the same
> > write-protected boot sector that win95 does.
> 
> Is it true that bootinst has to be run from 'real' dos and not win95 dos?

Yes.  Windows 95 write-protects the boot sector to protect from boot
sector viruses.  You have to use DOS ( < v7) to change it.  

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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