Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 12:57:24 +0200 From: Sergei Barbarash <sgt@zaraza.bofh.org.il> To: MR REGGIE H KNAPP <FKHT36A@prodigy.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager Message-ID: <199607091057.MAA08886@zaraza.bofh.org.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 11:59:35 %2B0300." <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.960709115755.7378A-100000@cs.technion.ac.il>
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--==!Exmh_1134065604P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, MR REGGIE H KNAPP wrote: > > > I have Windows 95 installed and it is using nearly all of drive C. I > > have a new drive that is at present unknow to Windows. I intend to > > use this drive for FreeBSD and perhaps other OSes. I assume I need > > to get the Boot Manager on to the beginning of drive C, but intend to > > tell the FreeBSD install program to use only the second (drive D) > > disk. Will the boot manager be placed on drive C automatically? > > > > That depends. What you should do (I remember it once worked for me but > I'm not absolutly sure...) is to tell the BSD installation to use both > disks, but don't change any partition information on the first disk. > After you leave the partition editor, you'll be presented with the boot > manager option for each disk separately. You can then have it istalled on > the first disk as well. Or even simpler - get the booteasy package from ftp://ftp.freebsd.com/pub/FreeB SD/2.1.0-RELEASE/tools/dist/bteasy17.zip and install it on your Windoze partition (it installs the same boot manager FreeBSD uses, only it's a DOS program). Have fun, -- ============================================================================ Sergei Barbarash <sgt@netmedia.net.il> WWW: http://www.netmedia.net.il/sgt/ NetMedia International, System Administrator & Programmer ================== Office: +972-2-795860; Home: +972-2-664779 ================================= --==!Exmh_1134065604P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQEVAwUBMeI7EPU11OVh4P5FAQExlAf/WMNT/QO63tXOSyfqCwCqbD+EegptV0wl wpQauuaSE+xVI4RqHEaUCNHY0wvKWYT3fby8CPFU1vUtMYQcP5GMUOpbm2Kbwe2P 0A3/FlaU72iZYTc7pJSBmks4aJx4bTfDNUYgx8epfkn0mJnsrknt8VUsZT6wLNfM T8GUwoNXm1H2CmpzckFUa0HEkynkyuL1DVrqID2nTtlvY8xjw5PeMvfClzSoBW3i zs1UVwgICca3h9xLQTv3ATr8pdYxbGItQEhRIoO5okMDnwhXNjKGFDPKF5SJCjEZ YLCxajnS3dkNgjCG+hU26UTEbbNyvyALLbsusAQ8eiznvmQGON7Zag== =xRY7 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==!Exmh_1134065604P--
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