Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:12:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, jjc@videotron.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i have a question Message-ID: <19990130101250.T8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901291447.JAA22139@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:47:16AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901290745400.292-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <199901291447.JAA22139@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 9:47:16 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Jason C. Wells wrote, >> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, jjc wrote: >> >>> How to install FreeBsd on a second hard drive, the first run Windows 95, >>> and the second FreeBsd, if i want not the any boot manager (like boot >>> easy of FreeBsd) but i want two distinct disk. If i want to boot on >>> second drive, i put disk A: and i go to second drive on FreeBsd, else i >>> boot normally on first drive on Windows 95. THANK to you, writing >>> french or english to answer please. >> >> You cannot put a disk in A: to boot FreeBSD on another disc as far as I >> know. I suppose it could be done, but you might have to hack on it a >> little. Maybe someone else can help you better. >> >> Otherwise you must have a boot manager to have both OSes on the same >> computer. This is really easy to do and it works well for me. > > Actually, booting from the floppy should be quite easy to do. Correct. More specifically, you load the boot from floppy and boot from hard disk. It's quite a useful method. > You should get a propmt from the booter and the following help > screen, > > [snip] > > 1:wd(2,a) boot from the second (secondary master) IDE drive > > At this point, you can just identify where to boot from. If you're > booting from a second IDE drive, the second example is probably what > you want. > > I /think/ you should be able to get your boot floppy to load that > drive by default by modifying the 'boot.config' file on it, but I am > familiar with the procedure. See 'man 8 boot' for a start on that. I don't think so. The boot floppy doesn't contain a file system. You could probably build a custom floppy, but that way madness lies. You'd be better off creating a file system without a kernel on the floppy, and putting a bootstrap and a boot.config file in there. All this applies to version 2 and 3.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD only. As of 3.1-RELEASE, there will be a completely new bootstrap. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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