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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:51:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing new drive.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225195009.28338c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980224175605.dallas.tex@airmail.net>

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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, David Vondrasek wrote:

> I hope I can get this answered tonight :)
> 
> I have a 3.5 gig drive (single) in 2.2.5-R
> I want add a 5.1 GIG as the master in the machine so I can instal win95
> on it and DUAl Boot. the BSD drive is not wd0 , WHat do I need to do to 
> install the 5.1 gig as the master and have the 3.1 (bsd) move to the slave. 
> The 5.1 will now bee seen as wd0 and the 3.1 will be wd1 , what effect
> will this have ?? HELP !

If you swap the drives, you must modify /etc/fstab or you'll get dropped
to single-user mode when the filesystem mounts fail.

Also make sure that /dev/wd1* exists.  

I would suggest making the new disk Windoze and leaving FreeBSD as-is.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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