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From: johan@moon.pp.se (Johan Larsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot manager
Date: 27 Sep 1996 18:17:27 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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James Card (james.card@ntc.nokia.com) wrote:
: I was wondering if someone could tell me a way that I might
: restore FreeBSD's boot manager?  I installed Win95 after
: installing FreeBSD and of course Win95 clobbered the
: original one.
: 
: Thanks in advance,
: James Card


Download a program called bteasy17.zip from your nearest freebsd site,
the file would be in the tools/dist directory under the RELEASE dir.

then unpack it and run bootinst and just answer the questions. THIS is
the bootmanager that freebsd uses normally. VERY easy :-) must be the 
simpliest way to do it.. :-)

-- Johan