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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:15:38 +0800
From:      Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        hsw@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot0, was /boot/loader what to set rootdev to?
Message-ID:  <199811260415.MAA22180@hsw.generalresources.com>
In-Reply-To: Message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 03:51:33 %2B0100." <199811260251.DAA15362@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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In message <199811260251.DAA15362@ocean.campus.luth.se>, Mikael Karpberg writes
:
>According to Christopher Hall:
>> I simply wanted to take an already installed/working FreeBSD system on
>> a single IDE disk.  (only has has one FreeBSD partition, no space left
>> to install bootmanager partitions).  Take it to a clients site - they
>> have one pc with Win95 installed (disk is almost full).  I would move
>> the Win95 to slave, put the FreeBSD as master and still allow booting
>> back into Win95.
>
>Excuse me? Win 95 needs to be on "C:", ie the first disk. No can do.
>Instead take your drive, and a DOS boot floppy with bootinst.exe and
>boot.bin and go to your customer. Hang your drive as slave, and boot
>from the floppy, and install booteasy using bootinst.exe, and you can
>boot either of the disks.
>
>  /Mikael
>

Thanks for the info.

---
Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>

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