From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 20:58:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD3C37B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g5S3vPie049460; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:57:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:57:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rick Commo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-booting and GRUB Message-ID: <20020628035724.GC51428@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jun 27), Rick Commo said: > I am interested in test driving FreeBSD. I have the CDs ready to go, > but I have a question remaining after riffling through a lot of the > FAQs and the on line FreeBSD book. > > I am currently booting to Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake using GRUB. When I > install FreeBSD will I come to a point where I can tell it not to > scribble ion the MBR of the disk, or will it just quietly install > it's own boot loader? It'll prompt you; pick "Leave the Master Boot Record untouched". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message