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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!pipeline!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!nnews.ims.com!not-for-mail From: johnr@hydra.ims.com (John Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Can I install FreeBSD to new SCSI disk? Date: 22 Dec 1995 14:50:29 -0800 Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4bfcnl$sva@hydra.ims.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.ims.com Hi, I have an aging Gateway 486-50DX2 with 24 megs RAM and an IDE Western Digital 200 meg drive. I've upgraded it with an Adaptec 1542C (ISA) SCSI card which has my CD-ROM, ZipDrive and 1.2 gig hard disk hanging off it. Currently I've got Windows 95 on the system. I'd like to just plug in another 1.2 gig (or at least 540 meg) SCSI drive and install FreeBSD on that. Is that possible with the installation? Will FreeBSD install itself/some boot manager correctly on C: so I can select between it and Win95? FreeBSD sounds like its for me (I use a Sun/Solaris at work), and I'd love to have it at home, but I still need to run Word and Excel every now and then. Thanks! John Roberts johnr@ims.com