From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 10:32:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA26976 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:32:29 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA26970 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:32:27 -0700 Received: from gemini ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14401(5)>; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:31:44 PDT Received: from willow.mc.xerox.com (willow.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29534; Mon, 11 Sep 95 13:31:42 EDT Received: by willow.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06190; Mon, 11 Sep 95 13:32:16 EDT Message-Id: <9509111732.AA06190@willow.mc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing freebsd off nfs Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:32:15 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The distribution is in all this *.{aa,ab,ac,...} files, which cated togetther form a compressed tar. Should I leave them allow, or cat them together to make a tar file... I'd like a pointer to more manual instructions (i.e. I already have a working FreeBSD system on one slice (2.0) I'm going to install 2.05 on another slice... Also, any good ideas on how to make NT win95 linux (I want to use loadlin) Freebsd (I want to use the fbsdboot program) coexist... I have a 1.2 gigabyte disk I just bought, and I'm not going to install any extended disk managers the WD Caviar came with...I figure if I want to get at the first 528 Mbyte from DOS, I'll be fine... So I figure I'll partition it: first 300 Mbytes DOS/win95 next 100 Mbytes NT next 400 Mbytes FreeBSD remainder linux Since linux boots from loadlin, its no problem getting at the partition Since freebsd starts at 400 Mbytes, I should be able to boot easily with fbsdboot... I'm not sure how Win95/NT play with the boot sectors... I currently have a system where: I can boot NT or dos After I boot dos, win95 comes up If I quickly hit the F4/F8 keys, I can boot old dos... any recommendation on boot managers...I've never used one... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001