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From: tnj@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Timothy N. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Custom boot floppy?
Date: 12 Jan 1996 11:59:01 -0500
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:59:26 -0800
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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I have two hard drives. Windows 95 is on the first, and I want to put FreeBSD
on the second. I don't want to muck around with the MBR on the first (which I
believe implies that I don't want to install a boot manager).
With Linux, I create a boot floppy which loads Linux from the second drive. I
boot off this floppy when I want to run Linux. Is such a thing currently
possible with FreeBSD?
Thanks,
Tim
In article <30F622EE.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
JKH> We're working on making this easier, but right now making your own boot
JKH> floppy is not a trivial exercise! :-(
JKH> --
JKH> - Jordan Hubbard
JKH> President, The FreeBSD Project
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Timothy N. Jones, Graduate Student, Computer and Information Science, UPenn
tnj@graphics.cis.upenn.edu http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~tnj/home.html