Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 03:07:52 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@mail.kar.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS-BS [was Re: Kernel] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811030252220.23559-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <363D724E.3E3AD73D@techno-link.com>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Plamen Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ryan Goeken wrote: > > > > > I want to install FreeBSD to improve my unix skills. Someone told me > > > that FreeBSD comes with a boot manager. Does that help if you have > > > two OS's on the same computer? Does this allow you to switch back > > > and fourth between the two? > > > > Get Os-bs from FreeBSD CD. (from memory: /cdrom/tools/osbs....) > It's much-much better then booteasy! > Pay great attention to disk(s) geometries!!! and of course RTFM :-) (I > mean "The Complete Freebsd" book) > > I do boot from: > > Disk 1: 1st partition: Win 95 > Disk 2: 1st partition (slice): FreeBSD > Disk 3: 1st partition: Linux > > > No problems at all. > > -- BTW, does anybody know why os-bs is choosen? After all, it's rather old beta. There's a lot of free domain boot managers nowaday (Ranish Partition Manager or BOSS, for instance), and some of them do seem to be better. Regards, Vladimir ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | kushn@mail.kar.net, | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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