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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can't get BSD to install Boot Easy
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On 13 Jan 1997, John Gebhardt wrote:

> I have a PC with EIDE card w/bios extender and 2 harddrives.
> Drive 1 = 240meg 
>    c:\ dos fat 240 meg
> Drive 2 = 1.9gig
>    d:\ dos 500 meg
> 
> I have System Commander as my boot manager.

Don't install booteasy if you have System Commander.  Use System Commander
instead.  I have reports that System Commander boots FreeBSD very easily.

Lucky for you, you installed to a second disk.  Sysinstall is stupid and
will put booteasy on the second disk, which doesn't work.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major