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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
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 03:31:51 -0600
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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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