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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:21:41 +0200
From:      Dominik =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=AFy=B3a?= <gavroche@wdm.pl>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dual-boot
Message-ID:  <20030427232141.2a417307.gavroche@wdm.pl>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030427150707.00ab6700@pop.omah.uswest.net>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20030427150707.00ab6700@pop.omah.uswest.net>

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:13:50 -0500
"WolfRyder" <wolfryder@qwest.net> wrote:

> I was able to successfully install FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop (Presario 1600) 
> last night. Unfortunately, my Win98 isn't happy sharing, even though I gave 
> it most of the disk space on the 30 gig hard drive.
> 
> lol! I have to learn how to be quicker in making the windows bootup screen 
> not show up (it covers the selection of dos/bsd.) I got totally frustrated 
> last night and ended up turning off the darned thing when I rebooted about 
> 6 times and it still insisted on booting into windows. The first few 
> reboots weren't any trouble (initializing the wireless network card took a 
> few attempts and I still haven't gotten it right. Got a number/letter wrong 
> somewhere, I'm sure) but after about the 4th try, it just starting booting 
> into windows even when I pressed the F2 key.
> 
> I'll mess with it tonight, figure out what's going one ;)
> 
> carol
> 
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Try to use os-bs boot loader. It's in tools directory on your FreeBSD CD. It could work.
Greadings. gavroche.



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