From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 07:36:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA25355 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA25344 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05479; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:36:47 GMT Message-Id: <199606241436.OAA05479@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA224387029; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:37:09 -0600 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:37:09 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: irpurdie@comp.brad.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31CE9DD5.7B4E@comp.brad.ac.uk> (message from MAD Mosher on Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:53:25 +0100) Subject: Re: Boot partition? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "MAD" == MAD Mosher writes: MAD> Basically, would it be possible, using network cards, to get MAD> all four of these to 'talk' to a 386 running FreeBSD? Yes. MAD> Is it possible, like Linux, to get FreeBSD to install it's MAD> own boot sector and to ask the user which OS to use at boot MAD> time? Yes. MAD> Thanks for any help you can give - certainly looks like a MAD> nice alternative to memory and disc-hungry Linux! No problem ... I hope you like FreeBSD! -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/