Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:01:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Robert Bastell, Red Deer College, (403) 342-3499" <rbastell@ACDM.RDC.AB.CA> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Oh no, not another question? <ERK!> Message-ID: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.980105214201.539071557A-100000@ACDM.RDC.AB.CA>
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Okay, (I'll be more than happy to be told to go look it up 'AT'...) One question. I have: - 2.2.2-RELEASE - HP Vectra VL5XX Box *Daily upgrades on the BIOS kinda thing..[B. At the install stage were it said "Would you like to use a true partition entry..." I said "No"... HP doesn't have the ability to load the OS cause the lacking MBR... So I use a bootable floppy that when the bootloader comes up I type my drive/file and it boots fine. Now I suppose I could re-install, but it's a Critical system. Can't afford another shut-down. Besides, I got the box configured the way I like it! (Scripts, etc...) Is there a way to tell the bootloader to go to the device/file automatically? #freebsd told me about configuring a boot.conf file, which sounds great to me... Hmmmm, is that hidden? Not a standard (for me) file that I can just vi eh? I'm quite happy to rely on my UPS to keep it from failing in a blackout, but it's a real pain when I would love to reboot from home and can't cause there's no one on console to type wd(0,a)/kernel. It's not critical to answer this one soon. I really love FreeBSD, keep up the good work you guys. Robert. Red Deer College Webmaster/LITE Centre Technical Director (403)343-4082 By the way, P200MMX 96MB's RAM 2 +2GB IDE Drives 10/100 Intel Ether Express (there a new driver for this? should I pop in to INTEL? ** I know, I said only one question.) 10Mb Connection to net (We have a higher speed line, but pay for that only.) FreeBSD 2.2.2 -apache -samba -dnews Kicks some major but for our server. They are running NT all over the place here, until I got here. They think I smoke drugs or something <SMILE> cause I use UNIX, but I sure don't spend the time they do 'configuring' the server. Thanks guys, you've made my job really easy.
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