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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news1.cle.ab.com!usenet From: bruce.halco@ab.com (Bruce Halco) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: removing the bootmanager for FreeBSD Date: 22 Jan 1996 14:50:12 GMT Organization: Allen-Bradley Co. Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4e0874$2um@news1.cle.ab.com> References: <4dmuq1$cc8@tzlink.j51.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alder.cle.ab.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.2 In article <4dmuq1$cc8@tzlink.j51.com>, bspring@j51.com (Brian Springstead) says: > >I just installed FreeBSD and I swear I told the install program not to write >the bootmanager on the hard disk. I wanted to boot with a floppy instead. Not that it'll be much consolation, but exactly the same thing happened to me. And it worked on my first install, which I considered to be a "throw-away" installation just to find my way around. Then when I reinstalled, Booteasy got installed when I didn't want it to. I assumed that I just goofed, but now I wonder if we've tripped across a bug somewhere. I havn't tried to fix it yet, so I don't know if FDISK /MBR will work. It certainly seems like the right thing to do. >Thanks in advance. I still will be able to boot freebsd with a floppy right? What I've done is put a patched version of Booteasy on a floppy. This way nobody gets to FreeBSD but me, but I don't have to wait for as long as it takes to boot from floppy. (Well, at least that's the way it worked on the first install) Bruce