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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:41:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@ControlQ.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BootEasy simple question ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961111174041.24113G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.961111182920.26364A-100000@fatlady.controlq.com>

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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Robert S. Sciuk wrote:

> After installing DOS/Freebsd 2.1.5, and Free SCO (in that order) ... SCO
> seems to nuke the BootEasy utility (which is quite nice otherwise).  I
> can't seem to find a way to trick /stand/sysinstall to re-install the boot
> manager in the absence of selecting media, and distributions ... is there
> a way to re-install the boot manager without the pain of re-installing the
> whole OS???

If you can boot DOS, then do this:

1.  cd X:\tools (CD rom on X:) or download "bootinst.exe" and "boot.bin"
from ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/tools

2.  Run bootinst to install BootEasy.

Easy :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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