From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 4:46:34 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 F1D9937B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.clubplus.net (ns1.clubplus.net [216.191.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156AD43E6A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 04:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by www.clubplus.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g77BhOB04985 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:43:24 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g77Bb1vN006054; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:37:01 -0400 From: David Banning To: Ron Andreasen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick (kinda) question Message-ID: <20020807073701.A5933@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020807073456.91005.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020807073456.91005.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>; from dlanor78@yahoo.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:34:56AM -0700 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 On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:34:56AM -0700, Ron Andreasen wrote: > One of the things I like best about the linux distros > I've tried so far is that I can make a boot disk and > boot linux from these disks. That's important for me > cause I have an ancient computer with a BIOS that > gives me many problems when setting up a dual boot > computer. But I noticed during the install of FreeBSD > that there was no option to create a boot disk, and > even though I chose not to make changes to the MBR I > found that I was unable to boot into windows. That's > okay though, cause I was smart enough to make backups > of everything important. I was wondering if there > will ever be a way to boot FreeBSD from a floppy so > that it never touches the MBR and never hurts my > windows partition. You can do this. I have done it for years. I have my FreeBSD disk as my second drive, and windows as my first. When I normally boot off the floppy, the "boot:" symbol comes up and I simply type 1:ad(1,a)/kernel and away it goes. Of course you have to change any references in /etc/fstat if you are changing drive positions. Checkout; http://mirrors.voyager.net/FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/ and http://crib.eecs.umich.edu/BootDisk.html > > I do plan on trying the install again and choosing the > FreeBSD Boot Manager (I think that's what it was > called). I'm hoping that it will still allow me to > boot windows and FreeBSD in spite of my BIOS problems. > Ideally I'd like to ditch windows all together, but > I'm waiting for a specific program called Callwave to > be written for the Linux/Unix/BSD platforms first. So > far only windows is supported and wine can't run it > yet. And there's absolutely no hope of running vmware > on a computer this old :( > > Anyway, thanks for your time and I'll look forward to > a response from you. > > Sincerely, > Ron > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message