On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Robert Kuan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a few questions on FreeBSD installation; I hope you would help me to
>answer them.
>
>1. How to change the labels and modify the FreeBSD Booteasy. I.e.,
>
>From: F1 ??
> F2 DOS
> F3 DOS
> F4 FreeBSD
> F5 Disk1
>
> to F1 WinNT 4.0
> F2 (delete, not in used empty partition)
> F3 Win98
> F4 FreeBSD 3.2
> F5 Solaris 2.7
You can't. I wrote my own boot manager a I studied BootEasy as
a existing and working example. Ordering of systems depends on
ordering of partitions (ie. slices). BE has its own table for OS
strings.
If you don't want to hack the manager's code, you can just
rewrite with some editor 1st sector (MBR) to eg. this:
F1 --
F2 Win
F3 Win
F4 FBSD3.2
F5 xxxxx
Ie. you have to follow string lengths. If you want to change
strings, use another manager. I can't recall its name, but there is
another one mentioned and shipped with FreeBSD, it enables custom
strings (OS-BS ?).
Jan.
>
>2. How to install the Solaris Boot Record so I can use Booteasy to boot
>from,
>Right now, when I push F5 from Booteasy, it gives error message: Boot Record
>not found.
>
>3. How to set up my computer to make a dial in to my ISP. Please provide me
>the steps or example to do the setup.
> My ISP is worldnet.att.net using:
> User ID/account no. is 740136...@worldnet.att.net
> Password is abcdefghijk12
> Phone for ISP is (415) 276-0107
> Pop3 in coming mail is postoffice.worldnet.att.net
> Pop3 out going mail is mailhost.wordnet.att.net
> Mail account ID is SysX
> Email password is 122345678mm
> Email address is s...@worldnet.att.net
> My modem is in COM2
>
>I have tried several combonations of setup but it doesnt work, I would like
>to FTP the FreeBSD update from my computer.
>
>Thank you very much for your kind reply.
>
>Sincerely,
>Robert Kuan
>s...@worldnet.att.net
>rk...@visa.com
>
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