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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        flemingo <flemingo@alpha.shianet.org>
Cc:        flemingo@alpha.shianet.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can I Keep my old OS?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.960603194434.10520A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <9606030010.AA04560@alpha>

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On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, flemingo wrote:

> OR you can run the DOS program "fbsdboot.exe", which will, from a
> DOS prompt, reboot the machine from the second stage boot loader
> in the BSD parition.  You will have to copy it to the DOS disk
> somewhere, and run it when you want to switch to FreeBSD.

You'll probably have to disable DOS's (or whoever's) memory manager in 
order to run the `fbsdboot.exe' program.  This is not a problem.  Just 
press Shift-F5 while DOS is booting (be quick with the keys, though).  If 
you're using Win95, run `fbsdboot', and Win95 will tell you that 
`fbsdboot' must be run in DOS-mode.  You have to tweak the shortcut it 
creates not to load emm386.sys (or something like that) (right-mouse 
button click on the shortcut to configure it).


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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