freebsd on 2nd drive?

Joshua Lokken joshua.lokken at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 15:09:13 PST 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:40:53 -0500, Haulmark, Chris <chris at sigd.net> wrote:
> Someone broke the silence:
> > it...n00bish. They would completely freak out at the sight of turning
> > on the computer and not seeing the XP startup screen.
> 
> I just use the BIOS to change back and forth with the hard drives.  Just 
> have to go into the habit of switching back to the first hard drive after a 
> shutdown or reboot for your family.

In order to make it absolutely transparent to the parents,
it sounds like leaving the BIOS set to:

  1) FDD
  2) HDD0

then booting from the GAG floppy when you want to use
FreeBSD would be the simplest.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate


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