Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:19:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Barry Soben <bsoben@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961104231759.5689L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961102212938.006778ec@fix.net>
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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Barry Soben wrote: > C is the hard drive that is initially booted on startup. So I'd imagine > that is where the boot manager would need to be. That is correct. > Can you guide me as to how to proceed to install the boot manager? I get a > bit skittish whenever dealing with master boot records.. (Had a bad > experience a while ago..) 1. make a backup first. Norton can do this no problem. 2. find the bootinst.exe and boot.bin files in /tools on the cdrom or on the ftp site at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/tools or something like that. 3. Run bootinst under DOS, NOT WIN95 since it won't allow writes to the boot sector. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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