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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 12:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: To slave or not to slave new 4G hard drive & reinstall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509124640.3051P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980508191606.6960C-100000@echonyc.com>

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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 in a dual-boot situation with Windows 95 on my
> Gateway 133 MHz Pentium machine, and am running out of room on my 2G IDE
> hard drive. I have FreeBsd 2.2.2 in the last quarter of the hard drive,
> and don't have room to make world, or do much. I have 2.2.5 on the 4
> CD-ROMS.
> 
> I have just bought another IDE hard drive, this one is 4G. I don't want to
> re-intall Windows95 or any of my Windows95 applications.
> 
> It would be great if I could put FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the second hard drive,
> and give most or all of the first hard drive to Window95. I may want have
> Windows NT as well, I don't know.
> 
> Anyway, my question is whether or not under these circumstances, I would
> want to slave the two hard drives together.

Yes.  FreeBSD will actually get angry if you put the 4g on it's own
controller -- you'll get the classic ``can't mount root'' panic.

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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