From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 01:32:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA20120 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 01:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.team17.com (hell.team17.com [194.200.20.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA20082 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 01:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shox.team17.com by mailgate.team17.com (8.7.1/PIPEX simple 1.26/EL rev 1.44) id JAA12364; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:32:00 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <324A3E9E.54E3@team17.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:28:14 +0100 From: Chris Morley Organization: Team17 Software Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD from CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I recently got FreeBSD(2.1.5) from Walnut creek CDs. I seem to be having some trouble installing it on my pentium. I have 3 IDE disks, wd0 is a 2Gb seagate drive with DOS on. wd1&2 are 400Mb ish drives. I want to put FreeBSD on either or both of these drives. I followed the installation instructions in the book and created the partitions required and installed FreeBSD with the X-User distribution set. I also selected the use of the booteasy boot manager so I could choose DOS or BSD. When I rebooted, it did not ask me which OS to use. I also tried installing Booteasy on wd0 and BSD on wd2 (and later on 1) but at bootup it only let me select DOS. Can I not boot BSD from another drive? Can I get/write a boot manager which will boot from a different drive? If not, is there a program which I can run from DOS which boots the kernel from the other drive, similar to the one on the distribution CD? Thanks, -- Chris Team17 Software Limited http:\\www.Team17.com\ email = Chris.Morley@team17.com