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From: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tera.tera.com>, "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>
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On 4/21/98 11:22 AM, Gary Kline (kline@tera.tera.com) said:

>	After 5 weeks of trying to dual-boot FBSD and Debian, I
>	gave up.   Shouldn't be this hard, but is.

I surrendered and spent $50 on a copy of System Commander.  I wish I'd 
bought a copy years ago.  It can boot anything from any slice from any 
disk.  Nice.

FYI, I setup a small DOS partition as disk 0 slice 0 - just enough to 
hold DOS and System Commander.  Then I installed various OSes (including 
Win95, WNT, BeOS, and of course FreeBSD) in no particular order on 
various disks and slices, again in no particular order.  If the last 
installed OS stepped on the MBR (ie Win*), I simply reran its install app 
and things were fine thereafter.

At startup it fires up the System Commander menu to select an OS.  The 
last OS booted will autoboot after a timeout unless configured otherwise. 
 It can boot anything, and recognized the BSD slice without my having to 
teach it (it can be taught for OSes like BeOS).  Selecting FreeBSD brings 
up the FBSD bootloader that then allows selecting a kernel or setting 
options.

Yeah, it's not free, but it just works with no headaches and no hassles.


    -- Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>


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