From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 13:16:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10242 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc.seflin.org (root@dc.seflin.org [199.227.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10134 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d055633c@dc.seflin.org) Received: (from d055633c@localhost) by dc.seflin.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA21547; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:59:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson Subject: Re: question about a dynamic drive overlay To: Doug White cc: Justin Wiley , questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: 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 I don't know about that. I installed an easyboot boot manager on my 1 gig HD (Ontrack Dynamic drive overlay) and it worked beautifully.. It even recognizes that I have the overlay when I start up with verbose messages... Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Justin Wiley wrote: > > > I have a dynamic drive overlay on my primary (and only) hard drive. I > > was wondering if installing FreeBSD will kill the overlay when it goes > > to install. > > FreeBSD won't as long as you don't tell it to. After the FDISK setup > screen make sure you select `none' for the Boot manager selection (use > spacebar to select the radio then hit return for OK). > > I'd make sure you have a backup of the overlay just in case. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message