From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 13:05:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06143 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06138 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA15903; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:09:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:09:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Foster, Jim" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Getting to Stable and boot floppies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Foster, Jim wrote: > Thanks for the info, and yes, you *can* ask why in the world I would *want* > to boot off of floppies! > > At the moment this is the only Intel box that I have and it must also run > Windows. Since my wife is the one who primarily uses the Win95 "side" of > > To me, it just seemed easier for me to push in a floppy, and boot. After > the boot is done, I take out the floppy. > > At sometime in the near future I will be getting another box to run Win95/98 > on for her and I will stop using floppies on the FBSD box. > > I don't think I have heard of OS-BS. If it is different than Boot-Easy that > came on the CD, I will check it out... It's quite different, run the Beta version, it gives you atext menu everytime you boot that autotimes out and _doesn't_ change to the "last used OS" it alwasy stays them same. Yuo can specify a timeout and a default OS, and give it more verbose messages. It's in the tools directory on ftp.freebsd.org, it may also be on the cdrom. OSBS135B.zip/exe i think is the archive. -Alfred > > Again, thanks for the info. > > Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message