Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:28:14 +0100 From: Chris Morley <Chris.Morley@team17.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <324A3E9E.54E3@team17.com>
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Hi, I recently got FreeBSD(2.1.5) from Walnut creek CDs. I seem to be having some trouble installing it on my pentium. I have 3 IDE disks, wd0 is a 2Gb seagate drive with DOS on. wd1&2 are 400Mb ish drives. I want to put FreeBSD on either or both of these drives. I followed the installation instructions in the book and created the partitions required and installed FreeBSD with the X-User distribution set. I also selected the use of the booteasy boot manager so I could choose DOS or BSD. When I rebooted, it did not ask me which OS to use. I also tried installing Booteasy on wd0 and BSD on wd2 (and later on 1) but at bootup it only let me select DOS. Can I not boot BSD from another drive? Can I get/write a boot manager which will boot from a different drive? If not, is there a program which I can run from DOS which boots the kernel from the other drive, similar to the one on the distribution CD? Thanks, -- Chris Team17 Software Limited http:\\www.Team17.com\ email = Chris.Morley@team17.com
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