From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 17:49:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scifair.acadiau.ca (scifair.acadiau.ca [131.162.160.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15143 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from miker@scifair.acadiau.ca) Received: from localhost (miker@localhost) by scifair.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25265; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:19:52 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:19:52 -0400 (AST) From: Michael Richards To: james matthews cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on another drive In-Reply-To: <34F9DB85.2C11@li-fish.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, james matthews wrote: > present hardware configuration I have 2 hard disks: One, drive C, is > dedicated to WIN 95 OS and dos software only; the second, drive D, > will be used strictly for FreeBSD. My question, how do I go about > installing FreeBSD OS on a completely separate disk (i.e. one not Here's a "different" solution that I used for quite some time. With two drives, each master on a different controller I bought removable drive bays. when I wanted to boot in the other os, I switched them. > appreciate any info you have on this as I'm reluctant to install it and > screw things up. Thanks Cardinal rule of computer scientists, back up. Then frig with it. If you don't, you will lose data sooner or later. -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message