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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to recover BSD Boot Manager
Date: 21 Oct 1995 22:30:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Robert N Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 17-Oct-95 Re: How to
: recover BSD Boot.. vega@glasnet.ru (525)
: 
: few too many newsgorups for my own good ;).  FreeBSD uses booteasy,
: which is available at..
: 
: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/os-bs135.exe

FreeBSD does use booteasy, but os-bs isn't booteasy.  os-bs does work quite
nicely however (looking more like OS/2's boot manager).  booteasy is in the
same directory as bteasy14.zip

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)