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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!superdec.uni.uiuc.edu!mbandy From: mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?] Date: 26 Nov 1994 16:36:31 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3b7o6f$8lm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3a9205$bqj@mall.sinica.edu.tw> <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <UWP.94Nov17173358@hydmech.fb12.tu-berlin.de> <3b70r0$26m@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: superdec.uni.uiuc.edu tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >Udo Wolter <uwp@hydmech.fb12.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >FreeBSD 1.1 seemed to insist on installing onto my first hard disk. Linux was >happy to install on my second hard disk. (Furthermore, it was clear how >to boot Linux from DOS (bootlin.com), so that I could put Linux entirely >above cylinder 1023. It was not clear if I could do this with FreeBSD). I have it installed on my second hard disk, and use os-bs 2.0 beta to boot it. The major annoyance with this is that at the boot prompt, I can't just hit enter, since the default is to look for the kernel on wd0. >This is the major reason FreeBSD didn't last on my system. Is FreeBSD 2.0 >better? Can I install it on my second disk, and is there some mechanism >whereby I can keep my kernel image on one of my DOS filesystems, and boot >that from DOS? I don't know of any way to boot directly from dos, but os-bs just installs a little boot menu on startup, kinda like OS/2. I have a 3 second delay, and if you don't do anything, you get dos. -- Matt Bandy <mbandy@uni.uiuc.edu>