From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 9 20:28:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26338 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26318 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@newman.concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/08/04 5.11)) id XAA23978; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 23:28:27 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts002d17.mer-id.concentric.net (ts002d17.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.77]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.8) id XAA05520; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 23:28:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:28:17 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Warning (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its pretty well known that installing wincrap95 after a fbsd install will destroy our boot managers--it might be less well known that installing msie (can't bring myself to use capital letters) will do the same thing. Its actually a w95 (in this case) upgrade and it became "necessary" in order to run some real time commodities reporting software--even though I don't even _use_ the 70 meg piece of bloat. Pardon the rant, but it wiped out the boot manager without (1) asking or (2) reporting. To reinstall get "bootinst.exe" and "boot.bin" from /tools and run: "bootinst.exe boot.bin" in DOS OR: Run the appropriate install boot floppy, go to custom installation (for experts--making us newbies feel good) and select partition, then select the dos disk, change nothing but key "w" for "write" select "boot manager" and you're back in business--which is the process I just used. Its in the FAQ quite clearly. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message