*BSD News Article 51403


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to reinstall FreeBSD bootmanager
Date: 19 Sep 1995 12:43:00 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
Lines: 7
Message-ID: <43mdsk$d5q@reason.cdrom.com>
References: <43lt7q$5nv@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386)
To: krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de
X-URL: news:43lt7q$5nv@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de

Run BOOTEASY under DOS?  There are other alternatives, but they involve
somewhat scarey uses of `dd' directly on raw drives.. :(  If you can put DOS
and BOOTEASY (available from the tools directories of FreeBSD FTP servers
everywhere) on a boot floppy, this is a lot safer.
-- 
						Jordan