Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:40:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Triple boot machine (booteasy help please). Message-ID: <199902110140.RAA26357@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi, I have aquired a new HP Omnibook 7100 for work, complete with 8G drive. I do a lot of network troubleshooting at work, for which I use FreeBSD. However I alos need to be able to run Win95 and NT. Thanks to some kind help, I figured out that I can riple boot my machine! However I did not follow the procedure outlined by my mentor on this, so I did not wind up with exaclty what I had in mind. I thinsk I can get a better solution than I have, if I can tweak booteasy a bit. First, what I have down is take a machine, whch was delveire with Win95 installed in a slice consisting of the first 2Gigs of the *G drive. I then installed FreeBSD onot a 2G slice (the 2nd on the drive). I used the sysinstall program to set up booteasy. This worked fine. Then I wne back inot sysintall and partitoned the remaining 4G inot 2 2Gig slcies. I then formated the last 2G slice as FAT16, so that all teh OS'es could read/write there. About this time booteasy started offering me F1 -> F4, with F2 being FreebSD, and all others being listed as DOS. Needles to say choosing F3 or F4 did not achieve much :-) Then I booted off the NT install CD. It saw all 4 partiosns. I told it to install NT into the 3rd slice. It worked for a while an wanted to reboot. When I rebooted, the machine locked up. However eventuall I slected F1 from booteasy (the Win95 choice, remeber), and the NT bootloader flashed by. Ifinished the NT install. Now choosing F1 gets me to teh nT bootloader where I can choose NT or Win95. Never being one to leave well enough alone, I would like to try to improve things abit. Can I eihter convince bootesay to boot NT as F3 and remove the F4 choice from booteasy. Or get teh BT loader to come up nstead of booteasy, _and_ ofer all three choices? Also can anyone sugest a way to get the 4th slice to be MSDOS bootable? I have not been able to make that ork, at all. Thanks for any and all advice on this. Pointers to booteasy docs, also appreciated. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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