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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!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!peer-news.britain.eu.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!nnews.ims.com!not-for-mail From: johnr@amalfi.ims.com (John Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I install FreeBSD to new SCSI disk? Date: 26 Dec 1995 09:53:49 -0800 Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4bpcrd$qig@amalfi.ims.com> References: <4bfcnl$sva@hydra.ims.com> <4bj919$cs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: amalfi.ims.com In article <4bj919$cs@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >If you could free up some 20 or 25 MB on your IDE drive, and put the >root (and therefore boot) file system there, you're certainly better >off. Thanks for the advice! I don't know if I can find the space or not on C: as the Windows 95 installation alone is taking up 120 megs! (Just a du on c:/windows). I've been kind of fascinated by the idea of getting an Iomega Jaz drive and being able to "plug in" an operating system disk, although my original thought was just to plug an additional hard disk on the SCSI bus. thanks, John Roberts johnr@ims.com