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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!nott!uotcsi2!news From: u646379@csi.uottawa.ca (Your name) Subject: setting-up on a 3 HD system Message-ID: <1993Dec11.225508.10088@csi.uottawa.ca> Sender: news@csi.uottawa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: nx6 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 22:55:08 GMT Lines: 21 hello I want to install FreeBSD soon, but I have a question regarding what boot program I should use. This is my projected setup: IDE 1 (256MB): DOS 6.0 partition (100%) IDE 2 (105MB): OS/2 2.1 HPFS partition (100%) SCSI HD1(1.2GB): Partition 1 (600MB) DOS 6.0 Partition 2 (600MB) FreeBSD I have been told to try OS-BS, but I have read in the FreeBSD installation notes that it cannot boot from a second HD. Does the above set-up mean I can't use it? Currently, my first IDE drive has 2 partitions: Os/2's boot manager and the resst (255MB) is for DOS. Can I use the boot manager to boot FreeBSD? If not, what other boot managers will work with what I want to do? Tx., William