From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 20:28:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA28230 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from alumni.umbc.edu (ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu [130.85.60.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28223 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:28:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ssriva1@localhost) by alumni.umbc.edu (8.6.12/Alumni) id XAA12067; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:28:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:28:52 -0500 (EST) From: Sandip Srivastava To: FreeBSD Subject: How to install to 2nd IDE drive? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install freebsd to my 2nd hard drive. My 1st drive is completely DOS/Windows. How do I install freebsd on my 2nd drive? I also have a PS/2 mouse. Do I need to recompile the kernel to get it to work? To boot freebsd, do I have to boot from the 1st drive or can I boot from a floppy? If I can boot from a floppy into freebsd, how do I create the boot floppy. I don't mind booting from my 1st disk as long as this wont corrupt my first disk and the DOS operating system on it. Do I need to create some Boot Manager on the first drive in order to do this? If I do, then is it safe to do this? If I do this, will I be able to return my first drive to its original configuration without any problem, that is take off the boot manager for freebsd off of the first drive so that goes back to the way it was before? -Sandip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sandip Srivastava | "The grass always seems greener on the other e-mail: ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu | side." www: http://umbc.edu/~ssriva1| phone: 301-989-0239 home | -Anonymous 703-275-6171 work | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~