From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 17:40:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26384 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:40:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from grizzly.fas.com (cc69528-a.mtpls1.sc.home.com [24.1.39.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26357 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Message-Id: <199902110140.RAA26357@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by grizzly.fas.com ($Revision: 1.37.109.23 $/16.2) id AA092657224; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:40:24 -0500 Subject: Triple boot machine (booteasy help please). To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:40:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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