Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 03:31:51 -0600 From: "Allen Hyer" <allenh@wtrt.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on New 2nd Hard Drive Message-ID: <199612010933.DAA08601@inetsrv.wtrt.net>
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> How should I set up a new second hard drive to install and run FreeBSD? > Here is how I did mine. I have a 2.1GB hard drive, master on primary IDE, whole thing is win95. I have a 1GB hard drive, slave on primary IDE, ~500mg FreeBSD and ~500mg Red Hat Linux. The cdrom is master on second IDE. Installed Booteasy on 2.1GB hard drive. When the machine boots, booteasy comes up with something like: F1 Dos F5 Other Disk F1 loads win95. F5 presents: F1 FreeBSD F2 Linux F5 Other Disk F1 loads FreeBSD, F2 starts LILO, and F5 returns to the previous menu I can't remember the exact order that I installed everything, although I do know that win95 was first. I found all the information that I needed in the Handbook and FAQ's at http://www.freebsd.org Hope this helps! Allen Hyer System Administrator West Texas Rural Telephone > Yesterday I bought a new 2.1-GB hard drive and installed it. I already have > a 1.2-GB hard drive, master on the first IDE drive, with a 50-MB DOS > partition; I had previously had about a ~400-MB FreeBSD partition, and then > the rest was taken up by Red Hat Linux 4.0. The cdrom is attached as a > slave on the first IDE drive. > > I wanted to put FreeBSD on the new drive, by itself, and dedicate all but > the ~50 MB to Linux. > > It seems that FreeBSD will only install on the 2nd drive if that drive is > jumpered as a slave in the 2nd IDE drive. > > But the computer will only recognize the 2nd hard drive if it is master on > the 2nd IDE drive. DOS will not recognize the 2nd drive, and AMIBIOS says > that the disk has failed if it is jumpered as slave on the 2nd IDE drive. > CMOS acknowledges it. > > Incidentally, Linux very sweetly recognizes everything, and LILO ("Linux > loader"), tried to install all three choices in the boot manager on the > first drive, but that screwed up somehow, and right now nothing boots. > BootEasy didn't see Linux, or install on the boot manager on the first > drive. > > Thanks. > > BTW, I am rather tired, so I apologise if my message here is even more > incoherent than usual. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Booth What, in ill thought again? Men must endure > cbooth@mordor.com Their going hence, even as their coming hither: > Ripeness is all. ... --Edgar, _King Lear_ > >
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