Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:37:48 -0400 From: Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca To: jimj@netrake.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk Message-ID: <065DE87AF392D411A3D800204840A0152E7F65@cbbc805.cb.ic.gc.ca>
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It's the wife's Windows Millennium. The master is split up in two 6.5GB partitions. I can probably resize the 2nd parition to free up some = space for a small /boot partition for BSD *before* the 1024th cylinder. What do you think? Ideally, I'd want to leave the master disk = untouched. I tried BootMagic (from the PQMagic suite) and it doesn't seem to be able = to boot anything else than something on the master drive. Also, when I did set up FreeBSD, I did not mark the / partition on my = slave disk as bootable. As far as I know, you can't boot off a slave disk. Am I wrong? Thanks again! Jo=EBl Dinel=20 Competition Bureau=20 Tel. (819) 997-2514=20 Fax (819) 953-9010=20 dinel.joel@ic.gc.ca=20 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Judd=90=90 [mailto:jimj@netrake.com] Sent: October 19, 2000 9:06 AM To: Dinel, Jo=EBl: #CB - BC Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca wrote: > For some odd reason, posts made from home never make it to the list, = so here > goes again from work : > > I've got the following setup : > > Primary IDE master : 13 GB HD > Primary IDE slave : 10 GB HD > > Secondary IDE master : CDROM > Secondary IDE slave : CDRW > > The primary master is entirely FAT32. I want to dedicate the slave to > FreeBSD. What do I do during the install to have BSD installed = entirely on > the slave, but have BootEasy write itself to the MBR of the master = disk? I > installed yesterday, with Booteasy (I am supposing it wrote itself to = the > MBR of my slave disk), and I never see the prompt when I boot. > > Is there any way of doing this without touching the master disk ? > > Thanks ! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message What do you have installed on the primary? Win98, WinNT, W2k... jj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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