Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 16:28:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: araex@erols.com (Inter-American Affairs, Dept of State) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem, FreeBSD 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199606132328.QAA00324@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606132128.RAA04451@smtp1.erols.com> from "Inter-American Affairs, Dept of State" at Jun 13, 96 05:23:53 pm
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> Have installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my PC and have 2 (at least) problems. > > 1. After the FreeBSD booting sequence there is a request for LOGIN and > PASSWORD. I have no idea what I should enter. The PC is not on a network. > I have tried several entries, i.e. guest, blank, anonymous, etc, nothing has > worked so far. Any ideas?? user name "root" password "" You are authenticating to the operating system. If you use NFS, or rlogin/rcp/rsh/rmt/etc., this will *also* authenticate you to the network. You should create a user account as root, then not log in as root to restrict what you can do to the machine (think of it like a DOS box, where you can't change the config.sys without a password -- it will save you trouble in the long run). > 2. There are two hard disk drives on the system. Both use the same IDE > port with one being configured as the master, the other as the slave. One > disk is loaded with Windows 95, the other with FreeBSD. I am unable to > select which disk to boot from at startup. The only way I can make a choice > is to manually configure the disk I want to boot from as the master. When I > boot from the FreeBSD disk, I seem to have the option of booting from disk1 > or disk2 (by pressing F1 or F5). However,whichever PF key I press the > system boots from the FreeBSD disk (disk1)! > > I would like to have the system set up so I could boot into either FreeBSD > or Windows 95. I am new to unix and FreeBSD so I may have overlooked > something that is incredibly obvious to someone with experience. Any ideas > or suggestions will be appreciated. You need to boot Windows95, shut down to MS-DOS, and use the DOS install program for osbs to get it on the first drive. Both of these questions are covered in the handbook, online at www.freebsd.org, or it comes with all new CDROM's printed after earlier this year. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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