From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 20:49:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA18445 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18438 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA09953; Tue, 7 May 1996 20:53:16 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 20:53:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Khetan Gajjar 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 Tue, 7 May 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > 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. If the BIOS supports the whole disk natively (like my Phoenix does), then you will no longer need Disk Manager. If you want to run only one operating system, then you can remove the Boot Manager too. Otherwise, how are you going to boot the other operating system(s)? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major