From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 23:58:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0152137B416 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:58:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA4BBDBB; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA28640; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:58:25 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2B81fu06605; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Mike Stacy" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <002001c1c8bc$7cacf0c0$0301a8c0@480mhz> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 11 Mar 2002 00:01:41 -0800 In-Reply-To: <002001c1c8bc$7cacf0c0$0301a8c0@480mhz> Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Mike Stacy" writes: > First, > >             Is it possible to change the login message, so that when I login to my box from telnet on a win98 a dift > message will come up.?? (Please limit your new messages to plain text <= about 70 columns.) Not real easily. I'd probably disable the normal login message (remove or empty /etc/moth or see the "motd" manual) and put something in my shell startup script (eg, using "echo" or "cat <                             When I finally installed FreeBSD on my PC I had to install the bootmanger to get it to > boot,  I tried like 20 times doing a full install, and I just kept installing FreeBSD and formatting, then finally when > I installed the boot manger it booted up fine, why and what did the bootmanger do to make it boot up?........ I suspect that you forgot to use your M$ software to make your old M$ boot manager boot your FreeBSD partition. Or whatever boot manager you've got there. (I'm assuming you did a normal in-a-primary- partition install.) With most PCDOS-type MBR-housed boot managers you "mark" the FreeBSD primary partition active with your PCDOS-type fdisk. Other boot managers have other methods, of course. The FreeBSD boot manager does little more than a PCDOS-type MBR beyond offering a boot-time menu which offers to boot one to four partitions or another next disk's MBR (so you don't need to mark partitions active). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message