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#! rnews 2153 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Alpha!jaring.my!irmhp1.celcom.com.my!news From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Preinstallation Questions.(ATAPI CDROM and Booting Questions) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:54:50 +0800 Organization: Alphaque. Anytime. Anywhere. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32368C6A.FF6D5DF@alphaque.com> References: <5107uq$2gf@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.190.129.209 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Dong Lin wrote: > 1. I read the FAQ, it sounds like ATAPI cdrom is not supported, but that > is the type of cdrom I am using. Do I have to copy all the files to my > win95 partition? It would be good if I can get away from it since I only > have about 40 MB left on that partition. the install mechanism has a way to do this. use the atapiflp.bat batch file. > 2. I have a dos partition and a linux partition on my first hard drive. > I want to dedicate my entire secons hard drive to FreeBSD. Is there > anyway I can install the FreeBSD bootloader on the second hard drive in > another word, on its own partition? yes you can, but you'd still need to use the bootloader on the first drive so you can boot off the second. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) +=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+ |for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."| |done; done | +=====================================================================+ http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9