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From: Dave Dmytriw <daved@agt.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD installed on second drive?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:11:46 -0700
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Can FreeBsd be installed on its own drive, leaving drive C: alone?
> 
> Yep, just be sure to install the boot manager on the first drive.  E.g.
> visit the first drive and make NO changes to it in the Partition editor,
> simply select the boot manager when it comes up.  After that, visit the
> 2nd drive and partition it for FreeBSD (e.g. DO make changes to that one
> and create a FreeBSD partition on it).
> --
> - Jordan Hubbard
>   President, FreeBSD Project

I am having the same problem.  WIN95 on first IDE drive, 1st controller,
CD on as slave on controller 1.  Second controller has IDE as master
with Freebsd only installed.

I don't quite follow what you mean by "visit" the first drive.  I was
confused when the disk option appears twice (once for the install and
once for the BootManager).

Also, there was another post that reccomended the following boot
parameters for booting off controller 2 master (haven't tried it yet)

1:wd(2,a)/kernel

Any thoughts ?  It looks like my install was successsful....but.  I
ultimately want to boot using a boot manager and not off of floppy.

Dave
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