Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:43:21 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Victor Cheung <victorch@softwareguaranty.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Trying to install 3.1 Release... Message-ID: <36D26A29.532EDF2@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <11DBDD569636D111A42600A0C984502233E1F1@ntas02.softwareguaranty.com>
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Hello, you have to install the FreeBSD bootmanager on at least the first primary disk **and** the FreeBSD boot disk (there is a bootinst.exe file in the \tools direcory just for this purpose) Then, you will have a menu while booting : F1 : DOS F5 : disk2 press F5 and you will be able to boot FreeBSD. TfH Victor Cheung wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm trying to setup the following on my home PC: > > primary master: 6.4GB IDE with Windows 95B (FAT32) (C:\) > secondary master: 6.4GB IDE (FAT32) -- storage drive (D:\) > secondary slave: 3.2GB IDE (165) FreeBSD 3.1 Release (previously > my E:\ drive) > > I've tried twice already (via FTP install), but I can't get it to work > the way I want. I would like to be able to choose at boot-time which OS > to run (Win95 or FreeBSD). > > The first time I installed FreeBSD, I chose to dedicate the entire > secondary slave drive to FreeBSD (ie. "dangerously dedicated"), only to > realize at the end of installing, I wasn't prompted about installing any > boot manager. And as expected, my computer loaded Win95 as usual upon > reboot (only difference is that it can't see the secondary drive > anymore). > > The second time installing FreeBSD, I chose the other "true partition" > option (ie. it split the physical 3.2GB drive into 3 partitions: first > and last partitions very small, the middle partition for FreeBSD). This > time I was prompted about installing a boot manager and I chose the > option that would do this (the other two options were install a normal > MBR, and not to do anything at all, or something like that). Anyhow, > after installing and rebooting, my computer loaded into Win95 again with > no trace of any 'boot manager'. > > My questions now are: Does the install process assume the user will > install on the primary master drive only? (ie. partition the C: drive) > > [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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