From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 21:21:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02048 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:21:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns.rdc.ab.ca (ns.rdc.ab.ca [192.139.36.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02035 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from RBASTELL@ACDM.RDC.AB.CA) Received: from ACDM.RDC.AB.CA by ACDM.RDC.AB.CA (PMDF V5.1-10 #9292) id <01IS17H88QJK8WY69X@ACDM.RDC.AB.CA> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:01:53 MST Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:01:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Robert Bastell, Red Deer College, (403) 342-3499" Subject: Oh no, not another question? To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay, (I'll be more than happy to be told to go look it up 'AT'...) One question. I have: - 2.2.2-RELEASE - HP Vectra VL5XX Box *Daily upgrades on the BIOS kinda thing..[B. At the install stage were it said "Would you like to use a true partition entry..." I said "No"... HP doesn't have the ability to load the OS cause the lacking MBR... So I use a bootable floppy that when the bootloader comes up I type my drive/file and it boots fine. Now I suppose I could re-install, but it's a Critical system. Can't afford another shut-down. Besides, I got the box configured the way I like it! (Scripts, etc...) Is there a way to tell the bootloader to go to the device/file automatically? #freebsd told me about configuring a boot.conf file, which sounds great to me... Hmmmm, is that hidden? Not a standard (for me) file that I can just vi eh? I'm quite happy to rely on my UPS to keep it from failing in a blackout, but it's a real pain when I would love to reboot from home and can't cause there's no one on console to type wd(0,a)/kernel. It's not critical to answer this one soon. I really love FreeBSD, keep up the good work you guys. Robert. Red Deer College Webmaster/LITE Centre Technical Director (403)343-4082 By the way, P200MMX 96MB's RAM 2 +2GB IDE Drives 10/100 Intel Ether Express (there a new driver for this? should I pop in to INTEL? ** I know, I said only one question.) 10Mb Connection to net (We have a higher speed line, but pay for that only.) FreeBSD 2.2.2 -apache -samba -dnews Kicks some major but for our server. They are running NT all over the place here, until I got here. They think I smoke drugs or something cause I use UNIX, but I sure don't spend the time they do 'configuring' the server. Thanks guys, you've made my job really easy.