Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:34:24 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: James Felix Black <jfb@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: W2k and FreeBSD redux Message-ID: <399052B0.A860064B@urx.com> References: <q5qr97zyak6.fsf@isis.visi.com>
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James Felix Black wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm still stuck trying to get W2k and FreeBSD to play nice on my > machine. I would like not to have to pay for a partition/boot > management product if I can help it; I would boot off of floppy first, > but I can't seem to find instructions anywhere on how to create a > custom boot floppy. Are there such instructions anywhere? I'll > happily RTFM, if I can find the FM. There doesn't seem to be anything > in the Handbook. I copied /boot/boot1 to my "c" drive and called it bootsec.bsd. I added the line c:\bootsec.bsd="FreeBSD" to my c:\boot.ini. There are attrib's that you have to deal with. If your FreeBSD slice is on the primary master, boot1 works otherwise you have to use boot0 and there are some caveot's there. Search the archive. I have two machines setup this way and the boot win98se/NT4/W2k/FreeBSD-4.1 Kent > > W2k and FreeBSD have separate disks to themselves, and both are > located below this mysterious 1024 cylinder boundary. Does that make > a difference? My work system is FreeBSD (4.0-STABLE) so I have access > to a box to futz with (the FreeBSD installation at home is > inaccessible.) > > Thanks again, > (jfb) > > -- > My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, > but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not > forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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