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From: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot manager installation ?
Date: 14 Nov 1995 20:34:11 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church VA USA
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Message-ID: <48bg2j$2nd@rodan.UU.NET>
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Greetings. I've just finished creating all the new file systems on a new
1/2 gig drive, and I want to make the new disk the disk I boot from, so I
can free up my old disk for other purposes. I keep reading in various
places about installing a boot manager, and installing boot blocks. One
helpful person was even able to point me in the direction of a helpful
script called disksetup, however this appears to be a BSD386 item, no
longer present in distributions of freebsd. Can someone point me where to
look for instructions on setting up this disk for booting, and how to
install bootany so I can use a dos partition on the system? Thanks!
Steve Mansfield |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but
smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have
|the best places to go when they die?"
|Small Gods - Terry Pratchett