From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 5 13:33:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7934D37B400 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-225-53-180.friaco.access.uk.tiscali.com (HELO jmdoliv) (80.225.53.180) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 21:33:08 -0000 From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: Scott Corey Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:31:34 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: easy boot Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3C3770B6.14737.9512F8D@localhost> In-reply-to: <3C337652.E0499206@bsdprophet.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this probably doesnt really belong on a fbsd list at all, but since Brian raised the subject:- advice to anyone making radical changes to a machine running win2k, before you start, take the 5 minutes to make a ERD (emergency repair diskette) so you can at least recover afterwards pretty painlessly if anything goes wrong the ERD is specific to your machine, so their no way to borrow one from another PC if u dont have one when the time comes that u would need it Mark jmdupx_@_yahoo.com On 2 Jan 2002, at 15:06, Scott Corey wrote: > Brian, > > The first place to start is: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/p277.html I > recommend that you read it thoroughly, before any install. It will > save you loads of head aches and heart aches. > > Scott > > "Henning, Brian" wrote: > > > > Hello- > > > > i am running windows 2k pro on a single machine with no other > > operating systems on that machine. I would like to use the free bsd > > boot loader as the boot loader for this machine. I was told to make > > some bsd boot floppies (boot and root) and intall it from them. I > > don't know what to do exactly. Is there some documentation on this? > > Is there another way to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message