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Mentioned using fdisk to change active partition on multi-os systems

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if os-bs is not installed.
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Andrew Moore 1993-09-11 08:32:50 +00:00
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@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ to make initial installation of the system as easy as possible.
14. If your system has several operating systems, you may want to install
the Thomas Wolfram's os-bs boot manager for selecting which system to
boot. This works well with DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and other systems. To
install it, boot MS-DOS and insert the dos-floppy of the FreeBSD
install suite in floppy drive A:. Then enter the DOS commands:
install it, boot the system with MS-DOS and insert the dos-floppy of
the FreeBSD install suite in floppy drive A:. Then enter the DOS
commands:
> A:
> os-bs135
> cd os-bs
@ -122,9 +123,14 @@ to make initial installation of the system as easy as possible.
ENTER. The readme.1st file in the os-bs directory contains
more information about os-bs.
If you choose not to install os-bs, then fdisk can be used to change
the boot system. This is done by setting the primary partition for
that system active. FreeBSD has an fdisk command that can be used
for this purpose as well.
15. In addition to the FreeBSD source and binary distributions, many
additional packages, such as X11 and TeX, may be obtained from
freebsd.cdrom.com - please have a look around! You may also find
this a good time to read the release notes in /usr/src/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.
End of $Id: floppy.install_notes,v 1.5 1993/09/08 22:51:49 jkh Exp $
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