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Date:      Sun, 11 May 1997 02:43:28 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
To:        Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
Cc:        Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to re-install bootmanager?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970511024212.18204A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
In-Reply-To: <33756BEE.7537@barcode.co.il>

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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> Richard Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > I installed freebsd while keeping a DOS partition as partition#0 on my drive.
> > Initially I installed bootmanager and it allowed me to boot whichever I wanted
> > just perfectly.  However, now I have installed Windoze95 into partition#0
> > and it overwrote the bootmanager code.  How do I go about re-installing
> > bootmanager?
> > 
> > /raj
> 
> Boot a DOS disketter (Win95 DOS mode might not do), and run bootinst.exe
> from the /tools directory on the CD/ftp site.

i've done it before by just booting the bootfloppy
and carefully doiing a custom install.  i thing i just didn't
select anything or modify anything but chose the MBR and
then "committed" ...
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