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From: "Ronald P. Jensen" <rjensen@inet.att.co.kr>
To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Help needed on install from DOS partition
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:59:56 +1100
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Thanks for the info Doug...worked fine!!

Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To: Ronald P. Jensen <rjensen@inet.att.co.kr>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: Help needed on install from DOS partition


>On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Ronald P. Jensen wrote:
>
>> Thanks Doug... I figured out that "A" partitioned the drive. I am  still
>> having one problem though. I can't get the system to boot. I installed
the
>> system as the directions state...with the boot manager...etc. But when I
get
>> out to try to run it..or boot it as it may. I get nothing but the
original
>> Windows default. I looked at the hardward.txt that
>> is included. But I assigned the drive geometry...etc. And still no sign
of
>> hitting F1 etc... to start OS boot up once the machine is turned on and
goes
>> through the ususal startup. Is there another program..such as System
>> Commander that I need to access the FreeBSD environment?
>
>I'm looking at the original message and noticed that this is going onto a
>second hard disk.  Sometimes the boot manager doesn't install itself to
>the first disk.  So I think you need to do this yourself and you should be
>well.  It's called `booteasy' and is comprised of two files, bootinst.exe
>and boot.bin, that reside on the tools/ directory on the FTP site or
>CDROM.  Just grab both, boot to DOS (using a boot floppy preferably, if
>none is available and you're on win95 safe mode boot to command line and
>use the `lock' command to disable the boot sector locking) and run
>bootinst.  Next reboot  you should be able to select the second disk and
>from there BSD.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>
>
>