From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 16 07:16:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA29874 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 07:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA29866; Fri, 16 May 1997 07:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-129 [207.14.72.129]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA18080; Fri, 16 May 1997 05:13:30 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 06:06:20 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Doug Shapter , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation is going fine... In-Reply-To: <199705161301.GAA26937@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Doug Shapter wrote: > > > > wd0 1G FAT (contains MBR) > > wd1 2.1G NTFS > > wd2 2.1G freebsd. > > > > the OSes currently installed: > > on wd0: Windows 95. > > on wd1: Windows NT 4.0 > > on wd2: freebsd. > > hmmm....boot easy only handles two hard drives as far as i know. > you would need to install a FreeBSD slice (dos partition) on > one of the first two drives. place the root filesystem on that > FreeBSD slice. /etc/fstab will then mount filesystems from the > thrid drive without problems. > > i will send this to freebsd-questions so that someone will > correct me if i am mistaken about this. > > i will call you later today. > jmb i checked out the source for booteasy a few years ago, and i'm pretty sure it was written to manage 4 ... i just remember being surprised that i was not limited to two. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------