From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 14:43: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7768937B403 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GH90044N8BLD2@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:42:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:43:02 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Windows Installation on the Same Machine To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B648366.90007@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010719 References: <000501c11872$b4da0550$6401a8c0@equinox> <3B647CA7.1020508@optonline.net> <01072917245300.00705@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The reason I choose OSboot, was because it can be setup to boot more than just 2 oses, like the default in fbsd, you can choose which is the default os to boot, and there is a timer (which you can choose) when the menu is displayed after 'x' seconds boot the default os. Its simple to setup, and if you need to take it off the prog has an option to 'backtrack' the mbr to before Osboot was used..... Just my opinion..... Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: >>>There is a prog on the -release iso disks or I believe under tools on >>>the frp sites called osboot. I dual 98/fbsd. I installed 98 on a >>>partition. Installed fbsd on the other partiion without a boot manager, >>> > > > Why do you need any of that, though? FreeBSD will dual boot quite nicely out > of the box, and the builtin boot manager is, IMHO, the best one out there for > the simple reason that it defaults to the last O/S used. > > Just follow the basic install instructions; it's all there. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message