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From: cjb@efn.org (Chris Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OnTrack DiskManager: supported?
Date: 4 Oct 1996 11:55:48 -0700
Organization: Oregon Public Networking
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In <532na5$mkp@fu-berlin.de> marziani@vaxfe.fe.infn.it writes:

>I'd like to know if FreeBSD 2.1.5 currently supports
>the installation to disk partitions which have been
>remapped with OnTrack DiskManager or its OEM versions
>such as Maxtor's MaxBlast 7.x.

>I have a box with 3 IDE drives (1GB each) and I'd like
>to install FreeBSD on the third one. At present I'm
>running Linux kernel 2.0.18 which *DOES* support
>DiskManager.

>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, I happen to have FreeBSD installed on a Maxtor 1 gig drive right 
now with the ontrack overlay as well.  The only thing I had problems with 
is the boot manager.  It didn't work with the FreeBSD boot manager.  The 
boot manager wiped out the overlay, and when I reinstalled it, it wiped 
out the boot manager.  Appearently they both want to live in the same 
place on the drive.  Other that that, it is running fine with the overlay 
installed.  I just use OS/2's boot manager instead, but that is because I 
am running 3 different OS's on the same 1 gig drive.
SeeYa!

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