Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:59:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my temporary imperfection Message-ID: <199903170259.VAA02707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36eee99d.468307@smtp.freeserve.net> from John Murphy at "Mar 17, 99 00:57:05 am"
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John Murphy wrote,
> My main pc has a large (10.5Gbyte) HD and a removable 850Mbyte drive as slave
> on the same IDE port with fbsd on it. I chose the dual boot feature, but when
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which is that?
> I tried to boot up later the bios reported "Not found any [active partition]
> in HDD". MSDOS fdisk fixed that ok and on the next boot I was offered the
> choice of F1 ... ??, F2 ... ?? or F5 ... disk 2. I found that pressing F1 gave
> me a dos prompt and "win" got windows going. F2 limbo land and F5 was same as
> F1 except that after closing down and re-booting I'd have to run MSDOS fdisk
> again and reset my main drive bootable.
>
> In tools on CD1 of the 4, I found bootinst.exe (Booteasy?) Ran it and answered
> yes to everything, and on pressing F5 F1 hooray up came Free BSD! However when
> I tried windows the next day it went into MSDOS compatibility mode, requiring
> the deletion of the NOIDE key in the registry to get it working properly again.
> This hasn't happened since. Probably because I remove the fbsd drive before
> running windows. I still have to do the fdsik thing after every fbsd session.
> I'll probably put up with it until I become more advanced and figure out how
> to upgrade the boot blocks (after doing an ELF upgrade/make world of course).
Lost me on all of that DOS stuff, but you seem to have it under control.
> Something I found most useful is that changing the shell to tcsh gives access
> to previous commands by pressing the up arrow. Now I only have to type
> /stand/sysinstall, or whatever, once, and it's remembered. I only discovered
> this today so I don't know if it remembers after a shutdown. Probably does.
Oh, you'll love tcsh. Wait until you start writing command lines like,
% mv `which !-2:0` !#$.orig
To remember commands between logins, set the variables 'history' and
'savehist.' Here's what I do in my .cshrc file,
# Remember last 100 commands
set history = 100
# Save them for next session
set savehist = ( 100 merge )
See the 'csh' and 'tcsh' manpages for details.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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