From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 20:19:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22030 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hsw.generalresources.com ([203.79.17.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22017 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hsw@email.generalresources.com) Received: from hsw.generalresources.com (localhost.generalresources.com [127.0.0.1]) by hsw.generalresources.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA22180; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:15:39 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from hsw@hsw.generalresources.com) Message-Id: <199811260415.MAA22180@hsw.generalresources.com> To: Mikael Karpberg cc: hsw@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Christopher Hall Reply-to: Christopher Hall Subject: Re: boot0, was /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 03:51:33 +0100." <199811260251.DAA15362@ocean.campus.luth.se> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0 X-Mailer: exmh 2.0 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:15:38 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message