From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 6 12:54:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3337C37B400 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA59A7; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:54:38 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:49:38 -0700 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-164.acuson.com [157.226.46.164]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MJSA0S9A; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:50:05 -0700 From: Johnson David To: ABDALLAH Faycal , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: need help with kde and boot... Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:54:31 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF60@MINOS> In-Reply-To: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF60@MINOS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206061254.31361.djohnson@acuson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:33 pm, ABDALLAH Faycal wrote: > unfortunately, i didn't make a boot floppy for the mandrake cause i of lack > of experience (i'm a newbie remember ;-) and i didn't find grub in the > package collection neither... Sigh. Mandrake, as a professional company, should have had its installer make a boot disk by default. I'm not that familiar with Mandrake, but check on the CD so see if there's an option to make an emergency boot disk after the fact. Otherwise, Grub can boot Linux without needing to go through LILO. You'll need to read the instructions though. You can find Grub in the ports collection under /usr/ports/sysutils/grub. > can i make a bootable mandrake floppy for another computer or it will not > be good? If the Mandrake boot disks are based on LILO, probably not, since the boot disks will have harddrive mappings hardcoded in. David p.s. FreeBSD doesn't make a boot disk by default during installation, but the FreeBSD install disk can still double as an emergency boot disk. p.p.s. If you end up reinstalling Mandrake, make sure you DO NOT install LILO back to the MBR (master boot record) unless you wish to use LILO to boot Windows and FreeBSD as well. And if you do, don't forget to set it up to do so before you install it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message