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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2627 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:562 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!news.txdirect.net!news From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can Freebsd be installed on 2HD? Date: 27 Jun 1995 04:31:43 GMT Organization: G3 Research Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3so1jf$7ll@legend.txdirect.net> References: <3sl111$bht@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> <3smdsd$mo0@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: link052.txdirect.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:3smdsd$mo0@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >Roger Shum <rshum@bnr.ca> wrote: > >>As far as I know, DOS has to boot from C:, so I have to put the 124M HD as C: >>and the 504M as D:. My question is: can FreeBsd/NetBsd be booted from the 2nd >>HD - D: or E:? I am planning to use BootManger from OS/2 to select the OS >>at bootup time. Any other good boot manger around ? > >FreeBSD offers you to install a boot manager (booteasy). Unlike the >OS/2 boot manager, it won't even require a slice (partition) of its >own. It is said to be able booting from a secondary disk. > >I think the OS/2 boot manager cannot do this, but i'm not sure. > >-- >cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de > http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Yes, FreeBSD (1.1.5.1 at least) can/could. I set up my partitions on D: drive and then installed os-bs on BOTH the C: & D: drive. When it booted it asked for something like: F1: dos F2: FreeBSD or D: Drive or something. If I pressed F2 it then got the mbr from D: drive and gave me a F1: FreeBSD prompt as the only option, since only thing on D: was FreeBSD --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net