From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 16:46:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA28638 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28633 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA04901; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:46:35 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA15321; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:48:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:48:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: flemingo cc: flemingo@alpha.shianet.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I Keep my old OS? In-Reply-To: <9606030010.AA04560@alpha> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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