Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:15:38 +0800 From: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: hsw@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot0, was /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811260415.MAA22180@hsw.generalresources.com> In-Reply-To: Message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 03:51:33 %2B0100." <199811260251.DAA15362@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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In message <199811260251.DAA15362@ocean.campus.luth.se>, Mikael Karpberg writes : >According to Christopher Hall: >> I simply wanted to take an already installed/working FreeBSD system on >> a single IDE disk. (only has has one FreeBSD partition, no space left >> to install bootmanager partitions). Take it to a clients site - they >> have one pc with Win95 installed (disk is almost full). I would move >> the Win95 to slave, put the FreeBSD as master and still allow booting >> back into Win95. > >Excuse me? Win 95 needs to be on "C:", ie the first disk. No can do. >Instead take your drive, and a DOS boot floppy with bootinst.exe and >boot.bin and go to your customer. Hang your drive as slave, and boot >from the floppy, and install booteasy using bootinst.exe, and you can >boot either of the disks. > > /Mikael > Thanks for the info. --- Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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