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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Some more newbie FreeBSD questions... Date: 29 Nov 1994 05:09:42 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3bed2n$gf9@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <1994Nov27.140846.124861@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <3bavhn$2fh@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <3bbq37$fgp@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Seung Kim (skim@menudo.uh.edu) had the courage to say: : More newbie questions.... Naturally. : I am a windows/mac-bie. You have my sympathies. : DI have two disk drives. : Can I install BSD in the second drive ? Yes you can. That's how my machine is configured. : If so, : how can I boot BSD ? Two ways (well, technically three): 1) Keep the FreeBSD install floppy handy. When you want to boot FreeBSD, pop the floppy in the drive and wait for the 'Boot:' prompt to come up. Once you reach this point, you can type a boot command specifying what drive to boot from (floppy A:, floppy B:, hard disk C: or hard disk D:). 2) Install a boot selector program on your hard disk(s) (I use booteasy) that lets you select which drive and/or partition you want you boot from. (Note that with booteasy you can even boot DOS from your second drive, if you like.) If you have access to a TCP/IP network of some kind with at least one UNIX host on it, you can also boot FreeBSD over the network. This is not for the inexperienced, however: I'm just telling you for the sake of completeness. : Can I access ms dos in the first drive in BSD (in the : second drive) ? Yes. FreeBSD can mount DOS partitions, allowing you to read your DOS files or copy files back and forth from UNIX to DOS. You can access DOS floppies this way too. However, you can't *run* DOS programs in *BSD. At least, not yet. :) -- -Bill Paul wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu