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Date:      Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:07:52 +0200 (EET)
From:      Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@mail.kar.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OS-BS [was Re: Kernel]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811030252220.23559-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <363D724E.3E3AD73D@techno-link.com>

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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Plamen Petkov wrote:

> > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ryan Goeken wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to install FreeBSD to improve my unix skills. Someone told me
> > > that FreeBSD comes with a boot manager. Does that help if you have
> > > two OS's on the same computer? Does this allow you to switch back
> > > and fourth between the two?
> > 
> 
> Get Os-bs from FreeBSD CD. (from memory: /cdrom/tools/osbs....)
> It's much-much better then booteasy!
> Pay great attention to disk(s) geometries!!! and of course RTFM :-) (I
> mean "The Complete Freebsd" book)
> 
> I do boot from:
> 
> Disk 1: 1st partition: Win 95
> Disk 2: 1st partition (slice): FreeBSD
> Disk 3: 1st partition: Linux
> 
> 
> No problems at all.
> 
> -- 

BTW, does anybody know why os-bs is choosen? After all, it's rather old
beta. There's a lot of free domain boot managers nowaday (Ranish
Partition Manager or BOSS, for instance), and some of them
do seem to be better. 

Regards,
Vladimir

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