From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 21:39:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC0B37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1310443E6A for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.212.170.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.212.170] helo=sparky) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180E3R-00049V-00; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:39:09 -0700 From: Jud To: rhillery@hawksi.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:39:41 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <200210112339.36974.hawk@redtail.bakerst> Message-Id: Subject: Re: booteasy & mbr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 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 10/11/2002 7:41:18 PM, Hillery wrote: >Arrrgh... > OK, I've R'd the FM (Murray's AND Greg Lehey's) and still can't find >someting that I know I did this summer... edited the text echoed by the FBSD >bootloader. If it was booteasy, you edited the source code, which according to the FAQ is a non-trivial proposition. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- 1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT > Somewhere on the site or in those books I found a blurb on how to modify >the text that spits out "F1 DOS & F2 BSD " lines in pre-boot (before BTX >takes over -- so boot) or boot1?) > > Actually, right now it's a minor annoyance but since I think it can be done >I want to -- I have F1 showing as "??" because it's a dual boot laptop (Win2K >plus this FBSD 4.6) and the WIN slice is NTFS. I once modified the echo by >adding and F3 which was bogus (to alloy a colleague who often tried to use >the system...). If I could do that (and I can't even find that again in the >books...). I've wandered around in loader.conf & rc.conf & loader.4th, in >/etc and in /etc/defaults. zilch. So you're real sure it wasn't grub or the NT bootloader? If it was booteasy, I don't have an answer for you. > OH, BTW, will openoffice 1.0.1 and/or mozilla 1.0.1 run on BSD -- Again, I'm >kinda new to this end, but I downloaded the linux versions (yeah, I know that >may be the prob... BSD isn't linux, which is great because I can't stand that >penguin...) and after tar -zxf then trying install I got errors ELF <0> or >something like that. & Yes, I su'd to root... Openoffice: Binary packages for FreeBSD here: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ (Google is your friend.) Build-from-source port available on your machine (if your ports are up- to-date) at /usr/ports/editors/openoffice. find / -name openoffice or whereis openoffice Mozilla: I don't use it, but there are several mozilla ports on your machine (again, if your ports are up-to-date) in /usr/ports/www/. I hear it takes a while to compile. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message