From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 05:25:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA03608 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 05:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (root@[196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA03603 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 05:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (khetan@ian.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by ian.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA18402; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:24:10 +0200 (SAT) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:24:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 6 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > > I installed Disk Manager (with some overlay) and the drive worked fine. > Yes, you still need it. Yes, it can stay there and not interfere, from > what I understand. If you need a boot manager, use the OS-BS beta; from > what I also understand it can work around Disk Manager. So I cannot just remove the boot manager and have zippo loaded on the hard drive ? I would like to *not* install the boot manager as I will be moving this hard drive into a new machine with a enhanced ide bios, board, etc in about 2 months time. I however want to get it right now and don't want to do it all again in 2 months. --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002