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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Ronald P. Jensen" <rjensen@inet.att.co.kr>
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Subject: Re: Help needed on install from DOS partition
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Ronald P. Jensen wrote:

> Thanks Doug... I figured out that "A" partitioned the drive. I am  still
> having one problem though. I can't get the system to boot. I installed  the
> system as the directions state...with the boot manager...etc. But when I get
> out to try to run it..or boot it as it may. I get nothing but the original
> Windows default. I looked at the hardward.txt that
> is included. But I assigned the drive geometry...etc. And still no sign of
> hitting F1 etc... to start OS boot up once the machine is turned on and goes
> through the ususal startup. Is there another program..such as System
> Commander that I need to access the FreeBSD environment?

I'm looking at the original message and noticed that this is going onto a
second hard disk.  Sometimes the boot manager doesn't install itself to
the first disk.  So I think you need to do this yourself and you should be
well.  It's called `booteasy' and is comprised of two files, bootinst.exe
and boot.bin, that reside on the tools/ directory on the FTP site or
CDROM.  Just grab both, boot to DOS (using a boot floppy preferably, if
none is available and you're on win95 safe mode boot to command line and
use the `lock' command to disable the boot sector locking) and run
bootinst.  Next reboot  you should be able to select the second disk and
from there BSD.

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