From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 8:44:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.sonntag.org (dns.sonntag.org [216.140.186.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B71D15832 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaron@sonntag.org) Received: from WIN2K1 (st84042.nobell.com [216.140.184.42]) by dns.sonntag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA57565; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:44:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from aaron@sonntag.org) From: "Aaron Sonntag" To: "Alex" Cc: Subject: RE: Boot Manager Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:49:16 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <57946.944063860@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Most people would say the FreeBSD native boot manager is just fine... In most cases i find it adequate too... But just from experience with various boot manager software, i have always found System Commander the be the best off the shelf product... it has been a long while since i used it... but last time i did a crazy multiboot system i had Win95, WinNT, MS-DOS, Linux, and NextStepOS all happily running on two 2gig drives. Needless to say i was just trying to see what i could do... it wasnt a particularly useful configuration ;-) One thing system commander was specifically good for was protecting my other installed operating systems from Windows 95. Windows 95 would wipe the MBR upon install and basically make life hard, and system commander handled this issue seamlessly. Aaron Sonntag -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sheldon Hearn Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 9:58 AM To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:46:11 PST, "Alex" wrote: > I'm going install number of FreeBSD version on my > machine. I know two Boot Manager programs which > supports FreeBSD: System Commander, OS Boot. In what way is the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD inadequate for your needs? If you aren't doing anything crazy, FreeBSD's own boot manager may do the job out of the box. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message