From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 16 18:59:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721EE15261 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:59:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA02707; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:59:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903170259.VAA02707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: my temporary imperfection In-Reply-To: <36eee99d.468307@smtp.freeserve.net> from John Murphy at "Mar 17, 99 00:57:05 am" To: me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:59:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message