Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:58:59 -0400 From: Tatsu Ikeda <tatsu@mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot easy question Message-ID: <35D19192.4508C25@mediaone.net>
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Hi, I just installed FreeBSD for the very first time, I am duly impressed! Took a lot of preparation, but when it came time to do it, the install went flawlessly. It seems like a great system, I haven't seen UNIX for several years. (Since my days at CMU) Anyway, since I now have 3 OS's on my computer, I thought, "What the heck, I'll see what linux is all about!" and decided to install it. I downloaded Redhat 5.1 and installed it. Unfortunately, boot easy won't "see" my linux partition on my hard drive (only one). So I have yet to boot linux. (I installed LILO on the boot sector, not in MBR, because I thought boot easy would be a better boot manager:) I know it should see all my partitions, because it even saw my NTFS partition, which had nothing on it, before I deleted it to make room for linux. Anyone have any experience with this? I have 4 partitions, FAT16 (with both NT and 95), BSD, linux, and linux Swap. I have to say, the FreeBSD installer was just as nice as Redhat's, plus it found my ethernet card. (linux didn't find it, grrr..) I thought Redhat's installer was a bit more "user-friendly", though. The descriptions of the packages were a nice touch. Not being to network sort of defeats the whole purpose though. Or boot it, for that matter. Sigh. Thanks so much, and thanks to the FreeBSD team for a great system. I'm having a lot of fun exploring BSD style UNIX! I'm writing this in Netscape 4, it's wicked cool. Please send any responses to tatsu@toth.com, Tatsu Ikeda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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