Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:09:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Getting to Stable and boot floppies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811241605430.10312-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC413@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > 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 > > 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... It's quite different, run the Beta version, it gives you atext menu everytime you boot that autotimes out and _doesn't_ change to the "last used OS" it alwasy stays them same. Yuo can specify a timeout and a default OS, and give it more verbose messages. It's in the tools directory on ftp.freebsd.org, it may also be on the cdrom. OSBS135B.zip/exe i think is the archive. -Alfred > > Again, thanks for the info. > > Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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