From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 17:12:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11443 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:08:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kar.net (n188.cdialup.kar.net [195.178.130.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11386 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Received: from localhost (volodya@localhost) by mail.kar.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA23617 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:07:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:07:52 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Sender: volodya@kushnir.kiev.ua To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS-BS [was Re: Kernel] In-Reply-To: <363D724E.3E3AD73D@techno-link.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Plamen Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ryan Goeken wrote: > > > > > I want to install FreeBSD to improve my unix skills. Someone told me > > > that FreeBSD comes with a boot manager. Does that help if you have > > > two OS's on the same computer? Does this allow you to switch back > > > and fourth between the two? > > > > Get Os-bs from FreeBSD CD. (from memory: /cdrom/tools/osbs....) > It's much-much better then booteasy! > Pay great attention to disk(s) geometries!!! and of course RTFM :-) (I > mean "The Complete Freebsd" book) > > I do boot from: > > Disk 1: 1st partition: Win 95 > Disk 2: 1st partition (slice): FreeBSD > Disk 3: 1st partition: Linux > > > No problems at all. > > -- BTW, does anybody know why os-bs is choosen? After all, it's rather old beta. There's a lot of free domain boot managers nowaday (Ranish Partition Manager or BOSS, for instance), and some of them do seem to be better. Regards, Vladimir ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | kushn@mail.kar.net, | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message