From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 11:33: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5169537B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A981843E65 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9QIWi709652; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:32:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210261832.g9QIWi709652@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: how to add space To: pippo@bellnet.ca Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT) Cc: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026122727.00ac1c50@pop51.bellnet.ca> from "pippo@bellnet.ca" at Oct 26, 2002 12:31:29 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > At 05:14 PM 10/26/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > > > Perhaps I have to install a boot manager - but which & how? > > I don't think it would be that much trouble to use Partition Magic, delete > slice1 and then reo the fdisk and the rest of the mounting process - but I > should then install the boot manager - but will it install it on slice 1 > (ad0s1) ? I suppose from there, the boot manager should poinbt to slice 2 > to boot... I don't think the boot manager goes in any slice. It goes before them in the boot sector. It gets read up and executed and it lets you select which bootable slice you want to boot up. I have only used the boot manager that gets put in when you select it on a FreeBSD install. It has worked fine for me. It indentifies stuff in an NTFS slice as ???, but that doesn't bother because I know what it is referring to. But, there are some other popular ones available that some people like, that look nicer and let you select boot in nice gui looking screens. Just make sure you install the FreeBSD boot manager after you install any Microsloth stuff, because that will wipe out anything you had in theree no matter what you try to tell it. ////jerry > > PJ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message