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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:19:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE problems...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.951128121814.18253D-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199511220049.QAA07480@ref.tfs.com>

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On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Julian Elischer wrote:

> actually you should still be able to install FreeBSD with the
> drives disabled from the BIOS, as we don't USE the Bios..
> 
> note the geometry assigned to the disks when you DO have them for the BIOS
> so you can inform the install code of this geometry when you are doing
> the SLICING menu (option 'G' I believe)...
> you should be able to install as per usual..
> booting is another question....
> but it's worth a try..
> 
> make sure that you install the win95 first..
> it overwrites other system's bootmanagers (gee thanks usoft..)
> 
> if it doesn't work, it'd be worth booting and using the 'fixit' option to
> get a shell and examining the output of fdisk and disklabel
> 
> 


Thanks for the help.  It works great now.... Although the DTC2278 EB 
controller wouldn't boot with the boot manager, I can boot up freebsd 
with the fbsdboot.exe in Win 95 Dos mode.



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