From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 17:34:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA23003 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 17:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22991 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 17:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab12494; 25 May 96 0:34 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa13965; 25 May 96 1:25 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA05169; Sat, 25 May 1996 00:16:31 GMT Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 00:16:31 GMT Message-Id: <199605250016.AAA05169@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: dhansen@cis.usouthal.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from David Hansen on Thu, 23 May 1996 16:47:01 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: installing freebsd Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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