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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Custom boot floppy? Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:06:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4dg0s6$gtb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30F57620.41C6@cs.uml.edu> <30F622EE.2781E494@freebsd.org> <i66hgy1fiy2.fsf@graphics.cis.upenn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 tnj@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Timothy N. Jones) writes: > 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? You could use the regular boot floppy for this, all you need is a valid bootstrap on it. If you then type ``wd(1,a)/kernel'' as the name of the kernel to boot, it should be going. Anyway, there's absolutely no point in not installing a boot manager. Even though Winglows95 stomps all over an existing boot manager, if you're installing FreeBSD as the second system, you will run fine with using booteasy to select between both systems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)