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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD) Date: 9 Aug 1996 19:44:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4ug4ep$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4u53gb$6ik@mambo.cs.wustl.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E gokhale@mambo.cs.wustl.edu (Aniruddha Gokhale) wrote: > 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. Simply go on, and create a FreeBSD `slice' (that's how we call the fdisk partitions, to distinguish them from the system-internal partitions) only on the second disk. You can select ``A)ll FreeBSD'' there, but _by no means_ leave the default path at the next question (``Do you want to share this disk with other potential systems...''). Make sure you've been selecting _both_ disks initially, even though you are putting a FreeBSD slice only onto the second one, and select that you want a boot manager. This way, it will be placed on both disks which is necessary to toggle between them. Disclaimer: i haven't approached a Windows 95 machine closer than 1 meter... ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)