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From: leonard@umsa7.umd.edu (Leonard Nisenoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ OS/2
Date: 3 Dec 1994 03:31:20 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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scheong@ece.UCI.EDU ("Stanley K. Cheong") writes:
>Hi,
>I am currently running OS/2 2.11 with boot manager. This arrangement
>allows me to boot to either DOS/Windows or OS/2. I also want to install
>FreeBSD on my system. Can FreeBSD be booted from OS/2's boot manager?
>Has anyone tried this?
>Any help or suggestion are welcome.
I'm running OS/2, DOS, and FreeBSD on the same machine while using
boot manager without a problem. Just remember that after you install
FreeBSD, that it will be the boot partition. You'll need to boot OS/2
from a floppy, go into FDISK and set the boot manager as the default.
--Leonard (leonard@umsa7.umd.edu)
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>Stanley K. Cheong
>email : scheong@ece.uci.edu
>work phone: (714) 707-2389
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