Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:37:01 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: Ron Andreasen <dlanor78@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick (kinda) question Message-ID: <20020807073701.A5933@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <20020807073456.91005.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>; from dlanor78@yahoo.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:34:56AM -0700 References: <20020807073456.91005.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:34:56AM -0700, Ron Andreasen wrote: > One of the things I like best about the linux distros > I've tried so far is that I can make a boot disk and > boot linux from these disks. That's important for me > cause I have an ancient computer with a BIOS that > gives me many problems when setting up a dual boot > computer. But I noticed during the install of FreeBSD > that there was no option to create a boot disk, and > even though I chose not to make changes to the MBR I > found that I was unable to boot into windows. That's > okay though, cause I was smart enough to make backups > of everything important. I was wondering if there > will ever be a way to boot FreeBSD from a floppy so > that it never touches the MBR and never hurts my > windows partition. You can do this. I have done it for years. I have my FreeBSD disk as my second drive, and windows as my first. When I normally boot off the floppy, the "boot:" symbol comes up and I simply type 1:ad(1,a)/kernel and away it goes. Of course you have to change any references in /etc/fstat if you are changing drive positions. Checkout; http://mirrors.voyager.net/FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/ and http://crib.eecs.umich.edu/BootDisk.html > > I do plan on trying the install again and choosing the > FreeBSD Boot Manager (I think that's what it was > called). I'm hoping that it will still allow me to > boot windows and FreeBSD in spite of my BIOS problems. > Ideally I'd like to ditch windows all together, but > I'm waiting for a specific program called Callwave to > be written for the Linux/Unix/BSD platforms first. So > far only windows is supported and wine can't run it > yet. And there's absolutely no hope of running vmware > on a computer this old :( > > Anyway, thanks for your time and I'll look forward to > a response from you. > > Sincerely, > Ron > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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