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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 14:24:20 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 37 Message-ID: <320BAC84.2C34@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4u53gb$6ik@mambo.cs.wustl.edu> 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 2.02 (Win16; I) Aniruddha Gokhale wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD on my PC which is running Windows 95. > I am trying to understand the installation procedure described in the > installation guide that came along with the Walnut Creek CDROM as well > as the FAQ, but I am still having problems understanding the > installation procedure. > > I have 2 hard disks. One of them is a 1.2 GB disk (master) and the > other one is a 1.6 GB (slave) (both Western Digital IDE). I want > Windows 95/DOS and its applications to exist on one hard disk and > FreeBSD on the other. I do not want to share any of the > disks. Instead, one disk will be exclusively used for Windows 95 and > the other for FreeBSD. I found information in the FAQ and the guide > about sharing OSs by partitioning a single disk or two disks and using > part of each one for both the OSs. Is there any way I can have each > individual disk be exclusively used for separate OSs. In such a case, > how should I configure the boot record so that at boot time, I can > have a choice of booting to the desired operating system. > > I will appreciate any help in this regard. > > Thanks > > Aniruddha Not a problem -- FreeBSD's Boot Manager will happily let you boot from the second drive. It comes up as F5 in the options list. With only one OS on each drive, you'll choose between drives instead of partitions. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |