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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:46:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Tatsu Ikeda <tatsu@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: boot easy question
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Tatsu Ikeda wrote:

> 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.

Well, now LILO is your boot manager.  Boot sector == MBR.

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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