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Subject: conf/19442: can't install on diverse harddisks.
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>Number:         19442
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       can't install on diverse harddisks.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 22 09:50:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Roger Andreassen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0 bulk distro
>Organization:
@home
>Environment:
>Description:
This is an installer problem.

I have a small leftover slice on the primary drive,
and an enormous second drive.

Partition hdb starts out well, but prompted for the bootloader,
I select hda, and the partitioning I've done on hdb is all gone.

If I would like to have my bootloader on hda, I have to partition
on hda as well.

This way I can only have 300 MB hda for FreeBSD
while I have 3.5 GB hdb available. Funny or what?


>How-To-Repeat:
Well, get an old VX board, I'm running 200MHz on a QDI 430VX,
IDE drives. Never have had any problems with Linux distros, 
albeit this is my first try in FreeBSD.
>Fix:
Better installer, please.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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