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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: One IDE + One SCSI??
Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:27:20 GMT
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long@njl2. (Neil J Long) wrote:
     ^^^^^ Your news software is misconfigured.  Ask your admin to
           fix this, please.

> Is it feasible to install FreeBSD on a PC with the following disks
> a small (99M) IDE drive (C:)  '/'
> a big SCSI drive (2G) on Adaptec 1542 (d:) - split in to /usr /var and swap
> 
> I have been failing to get it to boot - install goes OK but can't get it
> to boot up. 

What exactly doesn't work?  What are the error messages?

-- 
cheers, J"org

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