From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 23:18:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA11614 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA11608 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:18:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05763; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:19:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:19:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Soben cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961102212938.006778ec@fix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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