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#! rnews 1463 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD using lilo, Possible? Date: 5 Dec 1995 07:29:08 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4a0sc4$k06@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <49ve3e$njd@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Terry Eck (@sc10) (eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com) wrote: : Hi- : : I have been running various flavors of Linux for the past couple of years. : I have recently become interested in trying FreeBSD on my system. Over the : weekend I tried installing the base system (/FreeBSD/bin) on a partition : of my third hard drive. During install i chose not to install any boot manager, It is a kinda cheesy way, but just to test drive FreeBSD, you can boot from the boot floppy you used to install FreeBSD. When you get the boot prompt enter the paramters to boot from the drive you installed on. Granted, you wont know the proper way to install FreeBSD so it would boot normally with your setup, but it would be good for a test drive. I have FreeBSD installed on my second IDE drive, so I would use: ``wd(1,a)/kernel'' at the boot prompt. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)