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How-To Create Boot Floppy?

Posted by ScottDavis on Wednesday May 08, @08:11AM
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I'm trying to setup a dual-boot system. Win2k Pro on first partition, FreeBSD 4.5r2 on Second. I've done the FreeBSD install without any problems.. but I don't want to muck with my boot environment, yet. How can I create a boot floppy? Thanks!

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Jason on Thursday May 09, @08:39AM

I think the easiest way to deal with this is to install Win2k first, and then install FreeBSD on the second partition. Be sure to install the FreeBSD boot manager (booteasy) during the bsd install (it's an option). Your computer will then give the following options upon startup.

F1 Windows
F2 FreeBSD

It worked for me on my laptop.

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by ScottDavis on Thursday May 09, @08:41AM

Thanks, Jason.

I was a little scared of the boot manager - but managed to hack my NT bootMgr into doing the trick.

Took a couple of sessions, but it now works a-okay!

Thanks, Y'all.

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Davy Lagui on Tuesday November 12, @12:32AM

Yes I´ll like to know how to create boot floppy

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Davy Lagui on Thursday July 13, @03:57AM

Yes I´ll like to know how to create boot floppy

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Azeban on Thursday May 09, @07:21PM

I've been wary about breaking my boot environment ever since I started dealing with two OS's in my box (FreeBsd 4.5 and Win2k Pro.)

Yeah, I managed to mess them up a few times, fortunately I learned more than I lost. The best thing I learned was the existence of Smart Boot Manager. It's free, works for multiple OS's, fits on a floppy or (for the daring) in a HD's MBR, and hasn't steered me wrong yet.

P.S. I swear I'm not a salesperson for the software ;)

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Andrew on Saturday May 11, @09:07AM

I presume that both OSs are on the same physical disk? If so, then just add this to your boot.ini file:

c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD 4.4"

Boot into FreeBSD, mount a floppy, and do this:

% cp /boot/boot1 /mnt

Now you've got boot1 on your floppy.

Boot back into W2K, and copy boot1 to C: as "bootsect.bsd". Now you've got an attractive boot manager that can be configured from Device Manager in W2K!

Any further probs can be sorted by booting into FBSD, and running sysinstall. Go to FDisk, and set the W2K partition as bootable. Press W to write, and OK. Then reboot and the W2K manager should appear.

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Harald Servat on Saturday June 28, @02:36AM

Mmmm... and if both OSs are not on the same
physical disk?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: How-To Create Boot Floppy?
by Another Andrew on Saturday June 23, @03:38PM

Thanks, that was actually useful.

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