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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on slave drive Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 08:06:41 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31B05C80.4482@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4olg73$bbo@larry.rice.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) John Paul Campbell wrote: > > I want to try out FreeBSD and have a question. I want to install it on my D: > drive, which is set up as a slave on the primary controller. On the master I > have Win95 and Linux Installed. > > How is the best way to do the booting process. Will the boot manager allow me > to do what I need and access all three OS's or must i do something else? > > Any help will be appreciated. > Boot Manager for FBSD will see the slave drive as soon as you install it -- no diddling needed. You will get an added option at bootup: F5 . . . disk 2 Of course, what happens when you hit F5 depends on what you load onto disk 2. Hpope this helps! Ken