Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:34:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Ron Andreasen <dlanor78@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Quick (kinda) question Message-ID: <20020807073456.91005.qmail@web13108.mail.yahoo.com>
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One of the things I like best about the linux distros I've tried so far is that I can make a boot disk and boot linux from these disks. That's important for me cause I have an ancient computer with a BIOS that gives me many problems when setting up a dual boot computer. But I noticed during the install of FreeBSD that there was no option to create a boot disk, and even though I chose not to make changes to the MBR I found that I was unable to boot into windows. That's okay though, cause I was smart enough to make backups of everything important. I was wondering if there will ever be a way to boot FreeBSD from a floppy so that it never touches the MBR and never hurts my windows partition. I do plan on trying the install again and choosing the FreeBSD Boot Manager (I think that's what it was called). I'm hoping that it will still allow me to boot windows and FreeBSD in spite of my BIOS problems. Ideally I'd like to ditch windows all together, but I'm waiting for a specific program called Callwave to be written for the Linux/Unix/BSD platforms first. So far only windows is supported and wine can't run it yet. And there's absolutely no hope of running vmware on a computer this old :( Anyway, thanks for your time and I'll look forward to a response from you. Sincerely, Ron __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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