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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:19:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Barry Soben <bsoben@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961104231759.5689L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961102212938.006778ec@fix.net>

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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Barry Soben wrote:

> C is the hard drive that is initially booted on startup.  So I'd imagine
> that is where the boot manager would need to be.

That is correct.

> Can you guide me as to how to proceed to install the boot manager?  I get a
> bit skittish whenever dealing with master boot records..  (Had a bad
> experience a while ago..)

1.  make a backup first.  Norton can do this no problem.

2.  find the bootinst.exe and boot.bin files in /tools on the cdrom or on
the ftp site at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/tools or
something like that.

3.  Run bootinst under DOS, NOT WIN95 since it won't allow writes to the
boot sector.

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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