Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 00:16:31 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: dhansen@cis.usouthal.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd Message-ID: <199605250016.AAA05169@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.88.9605231634.A1361-0100000@go> (message from David Hansen on Thu, 23 May 1996 16:47:01 -0500 (CDT))
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> having trouble installing freebsd on a second drive [d:] in a 486pc-clone > that already has win95 installed on the c: it gets as far as rebooting > to mount the system but cannot ..freaks and dies.. i believe win95 must > be holding onto the mbr. can anyone tell me what i need to do? i'd > delete win95 if i didn't need it to run programs for school. You need to install some kind of boot manager. If these are two separate disks, you can just boot FreeBSD of the install floppy - when it says boot: type in wd(1,a)/kernel (assuming you have two IDE/EIDE hard disks) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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