Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:17:13 -0700 From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> To: "'Alfred Perlstein'" <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Getting to Stable and boot floppies Message-ID: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC413@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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Thanks for the info, and yes, you *can* ask why in the world I would *want* to boot off of floppies! At the moment this is the only Intel box that I have and it must also run Windows. Since my wife is the one who primarily uses the Win95 "side" of the box, I needed (read as was required to...) make the FreeBSD part as transparent as possible to her. From what little I played with the boot manager (Boot-Easy) that came with FBSD, it seemed a little too cryptic. Since Win95 is on one physical disk and FBSD is on another, I was prompted by the boot manager to press F5 to switch disks and then it would present me with what OS was on that disk. And, if memory serves me correctly, it always defaults to the last used OS, which means if she turns on the computer before she has had her coffee in the morning, there is a good chance that she will miss the prompts and will be presented with a FBSD login. At that point I will get a call at work asking how to get out of it... To me, it just seemed easier for me to push in a floppy, and boot. After the boot is done, I take out the floppy. At sometime in the near future I will be getting another box to run Win95/98 on for her and I will stop using floppies on the FBSD box. I don't think I have heard of OS-BS. If it is different than Boot-Easy that came on the CD, I will check it out... Again, thanks for the info. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@hotjobs.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 12:03 PM > To: Foster, Jim > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: RE: Getting to Stable and boot floppies > > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > > > Ahhhh. I think I am beginning to see the light. > > > > If I understand what you are saying, I don't need the zipped kernel on > the > > floppy, just the boot loader. (I would guess, perhaps incorrectly, that > the > > loader doesn't change to often and I could continue to use my current > boot > > floppy if need be.) > > In 3.0 they are a bit in flux, but only for functionality, not > compatibility, in 2.2 they seem to be going unchanged for quite > some time, just be sure to watch out for "HEADS UP" messages on > the lists if you can, or watch your cvsup logs for changes to the > boot blocks. > > Can I ask why it is nessesary for you to boot off floppy? Can't > you use OS-BS (in the tools directory on ftp.freebsd.org) it's a > multiboot program you can use to switch between other OS's and > freebsd (if this is what you are doing) > > If not you can try to change your active paritions via fdisk, or > just slip a boot.conf into your / on your installed machine. > > > And since I already am booting off of a floppy, I do know what goes into > > boot.conf for my system. > > > > Great, enjoy. > > -Alfred > > > Thanks a lot. > > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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