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From: awnbreel@panix.com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual booting between FreeBSDand Win95
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 23:12:07 GMT
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In article <MPG.d7006d522136c13989689@news.erols.com>,
steranka@steranka.com (Patrick Steranka) wrote:
>As a first time installer to FreeBSD and paranoid about what might go
>wrong I choose NOT to install the boot manager.
I know what you mean about the paranoia, but I took the plunge
and it worked for me. It was odd though. No matter how many times I
asked the boot floppy to install Boot Easy, it never did. After much
fiddling and fussing, I finally used BOOTINST.EXE (after booting to
MS-Dos; it wouldn't install Boot Easy in a Dos window; I kept
getting Error 3). It was a bit nerve-wracking answering yes to both
"Disk 1?" and "Disk 2?", but it worked fine. Now it's just a matter
of pressing a function key to go into either Win95 or FreeBSD (on
drive 2).
I should say that I did a "User" installation from a DOS
partition using stuff I downloaded from ftp4.FreeBSD.ORG
(2.2GAMMA-970205). Everything went in properly (finally), but I
couldn't figure out how to get it to install zsh. Also, for the time
being, I just let the installation create the swap on the same FreeBSD
slice (is that the right use of the word?). My paranoia got the
better of me when I couldn't really feel certain I was
properly creating another FreeBSD partition on the disk 1 extended
partition (there are 3 or 4 dos logical drives there). Well, I'll
deal with that later.
So the kicker is, I went out this afternoon and found a copy
of =The Complete FreeBSD= and decided to buy it for the CD, not to
install FreeBSD (it's 2.1.5, I think), but for the packages, etc.
Saves me the time of downloading stuff. And maybe I can get it to
install zsh, now.
Anyway, thanks to everybody for the advice. Guess I'm on my
way. Wherever the hell that might be.
Michael R Weholt
http://www.panix.com/~mrw/