Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:44:57 -0500 From: "Jeff Rogers" <jlr@soltec.net> To: "GhostLV" <ross@lvcm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on other HD Message-ID: <199808011748.MAA25123@photon.soltec.net> In-Reply-To: <000701bdbd62$cf1d71e0$3f05ea18@ross.lvcablemodem.com>
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<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>Hi Rick, I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 with Dos 622 & win 95 installed on another HDD. For the second, unused HDD, I had to go in with fdisk and delete the logical partition with which I had set up the unused HDD (1.3 GB West. Dig. Caviar) FIRST. Once I'd done that, FreeBSD recognized the disk, and I could choose to let it install its boot manager on the FIRST hard drive. Then, being very careful to make sure during installation, that in the next step I deselected the first hard drive and selected the previously unused hard drive, I could choose to use all the hard drive and let Free BSD automatically allocate and label it (slice it?) accordingly. It went like a breeze. The only thing is, I was told two different things about the boot manager. The book, <underline>The Complete FreeBSD</underline> by Greg Lehey, seemed to indicate to *only* install it on the first hard drive, where win 9x resides, etc. and not on also the second. A friend who is an avid user of FreeBSD said, he didn't think that would work, to install it on both hard drives. I truly don't know. I did install it on the second hard drive. It still works fine, and so far I really like it. Btw, I would recommend Mr. Lehey's book. It's been really helpful for me. Best of luck to you. Jeff Rogers jlr@soltec.net <smaller>>Hi!I've had FreeBSD 2.2.2 for a while now ( a year ) and have been putting off installing it. There may be an answer to this question somewhere already, but I'm hoping I could get a quick answer from you and save my self the time of browsing a few pages. My question is: I have 3 IDE drive on my system. I'm currently running dual boot, Windows 98 and Windows NT. I have a third 1 Gig IDE drive that I would like to dedicate to FREBSD. Can I install FreeBSD on an IDE drive other than the Boot drive? It seems like the options I'm given at the begining of install does not include drive other than the first, or main bootable drive.<bigger><smaller>Thanks for any help.<bigger><smaller>rick><bigger> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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