Date: 11 Mar 2002 00:01:41 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Mike Stacy" <mstacy@angstrom.net> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <er1yerbkii.yer@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <002001c1c8bc$7cacf0c0$0301a8c0@480mhz> References: <002001c1c8bc$7cacf0c0$0301a8c0@480mhz>
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"Mike Stacy" <mstacy@angstrom.net> writes: > First, > > Is it possible to change the login message, so that when I login to my box from telnet on a win98 a dift > message will come up.?? (Please limit your new messages to plain text <= about 70 columns.) Not real easily. I'd probably disable the normal login message (remove or empty /etc/moth or see the "motd" manual) and put something in my shell startup script (eg, using "echo" or "cat <<EOT"-type "here document" -- see your shell manual). > When I finally installed FreeBSD on my PC I had to install the bootmanger to get it to > boot, I tried like 20 times doing a full install, and I just kept installing FreeBSD and formatting, then finally when > I installed the boot manger it booted up fine, why and what did the bootmanger do to make it boot up?........ I suspect that you forgot to use your M$ software to make your old M$ boot manager boot your FreeBSD partition. Or whatever boot manager you've got there. (I'm assuming you did a normal in-a-primary- partition install.) With most PCDOS-type MBR-housed boot managers you "mark" the FreeBSD primary partition active with your PCDOS-type fdisk. Other boot managers have other methods, of course. The FreeBSD boot manager does little more than a PCDOS-type MBR beyond offering a boot-time menu which offers to boot one to four partitions or another next disk's MBR (so you don't need to mark partitions active). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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