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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:47:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephen Pearson <spearson@cpcug.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, spearson@cpcug.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109124600.3520A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960109001609.4925A-100000@cpcug.org>

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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Stephen Pearson wrote:

> I looked through as many of the posted docs as I could get to, but did 
> not see an explicit answer to the following question.  I have a 486 PC 
> with 2 IDE hard drives.  Physical drive 1 has a primary DOS partition 
> (C:) and an extended DOS partition (E:).  Physical drive 2 also has a DOS 
> partition (D:), but has no data on it.  Can I install FreeBSD 2.1 on 
> physical drive 2, in place of the DOS partition (drive D:)?  Thanks in 
> advance for your answer.

Yes; you will have to delete the logical drive and partition off of your 
second disk using FDISK.  

** This is going to change your drive letters, since drive D: will no 
longer exist -- your current E: will become D:.  **

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




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