From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 22 23:59:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA03977 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA03972 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA04167; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 01:59:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 01:59:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: ocean@wavefront.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199710230550.AAA03045@wavefront.wavefront.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 ocean@wavefront.com wrote: > Dual Booting > *SIGH* I recently messed up my computer while trying to back up my data, and > now after typing this whole message, I accidently sent it to FreeBSD.com instead > of .org. Ah well, enough whining from me, here's my question: freebsd.com works, too. I think.net does, even. > If I want FreeBSD v2.2.5 *and* v3.0 on my comp, would I have to do anything > different? I wouldn't think so, I can just install them to different slices. > OK, I guess I answered my own question there, but here's the second part: > How do I change the boot manager that comes supplied with FreeBSD and alter > what it reports the OSs to be? I want to change "dos" to be "Crappy OS" and I want to change "bsd" to be "FreeBSD v2.2.5" (and ...v3.0 also) > Is this possible or do I have to get another manager? Is there another (free) > manager that anyone suggests? (If I need a diff. one) You can't do this with the default boot manager without hacking the source directly. I believe it's possible to change names like this using the OS/2 boot manager; which is an option given in /stand/sysinstall. I DON'T believe you can have 2 seperate FreeBSD partitions on one drive, but I seem to recall that there is a way to do it on seperate drives. Someone else should have a better answer about that, tho. > Thanks, > Michael Porter > ocean@wavefront.com > port0095@tc.umn.edu *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*