*BSD News Article 44530


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh
From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving from Linux ---> FreeBSD
Date: 24 May 1995 00:32:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <3pturn$1av@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <D91FLv.8qD@ritz.mordor.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <D91FLv.8qD@ritz.mordor.com>,
Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
>Does FreeBSD have some sort of utility like lilo to allow the
>machine to boot more than one OS?  I have a Dos/Win IDE disk
>that I use sometimes for word processing and such.

Yes, it's called "booteasy" and is an option in the FreeBSD installation.

>Vega 486/66 ISA/VLB motherboard (what about AMD DX2-80?)
>#9 GXE 64 local bus video with 4mb vram
>Adaptec 1542CF scsi controller
>Seagate St3600N 500mb scsi disk
>Toshiba X3501 quad speed scsi cdrom
>(mumble) IDE controller (also controls the floppies)
>Fujitsu 500mb IDE disk
>Soundblaster Pro card

Should all work just peachy..

					Jordan