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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!gbworks From: gbworks@cs.tu-berlin.de (Guenter Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with bootinst after installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 Date: 21 Sep 1995 20:23:41 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 25 Message-ID: <43shkd$9t4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hombre.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: Problem with bootinst usage after installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5 Keywords: Boot Manager Installation Bootinst Hi folks, I'm a Linuxer switching to FreeBSD, at least I try too, and bought Walnut Creek's CDROM with version 2.0.5. I had some problems with the installation but I want to keep DOS/Windows, Linux and FreeBSD for a better comparison of some programs. As I understand it bootinst gets the information from the file boot.bin. But how or when can I write this? I started bootinst with no filename but as I understand its function it installed boot.bin anyway. Luckily I'm still able to boot DOS with F1 and FreeBSD with F3 and F4 (why that?) but have to start Linux by a bootable floppy. Any hints or recommmendations are welcome. Especially because I'm still looking for _any_ documentation. On Linux there were tons of information, but here is no directory /usr/doc and I found no hint on what to read (beside some O'Reilly books). Thanks -- =============================================================================== Technische Universitdt Berlin MAIL: gbworks@cs.tu-berlin.de ===============================================================================