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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:23:58 -0300
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From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on another drive
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I have exactly tis sittuatioon here: one disk for Uncle Bill's child (NT4)
and another one for FreeBSD, installed AFTER NT was.

Just boot from a floppy (it can be a DOS floppy with access to your CD-ROM,
or the floppy created by the FreeBSD tools, at the CD-ROM) and follow the
instructions on screen. you will soon be asked on which hard drive you want
to install Free.

in my case the choices given were

wd0
wd1

(just to remind you guys and gals, WD stands for Western Digital)

Choose the second one and allow FreeBSD to install the bootmanager when it
prompts to. 

Final result:

Windows installation untouched.
Free installed.

the bootmanager will let you choose which disk to use. That's it.

Hope it helped.


At 02:04 PM 3/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>james matthews wrote:
> 
> james matthews wrote:
>
> Recently I purchased FreeBSD 2.2.5 and now plan to install it. In my
> present hardware configuration I have 2 hard disks: One, drive C, is
> dedicated to WIN 95 OS and dos software only; the second, drive D,  
> will be used strictly for FreeBSD. My question, how do I go about 
> installing FreeBSD OS on a completely separate disk (i.e. one not 
> having to share it with another OS). The literature seems only to show
> how to partition it with some other drive. Also fdisk (dos) tells me 
> that I can only set my C drive as the active partition. Is it
>necessary  to make the drive where I'll put FreeBSD an active drive? I
>would 
> appreciate any info you have on this as I'm reluctant to install it and
> screw things up. Thanks
>                                         Jim Matthews
>> >
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