From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 1 10:05:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23116 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 10:05:46 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23110 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 10:05:40 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA18768; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:22:25 +0800 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:22:24 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: New installation notes In-Reply-To: <199504011230.WAA08606@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Bruce Evans wrote: > > The whole drive can't be used for BSD if there is a boot manager > because if the whole drive is used for BSD then there is no space > left for the boot manager. An MSDOS partition shouldn't be necessary > and shouldn't be created. Just create a BSD partition starting > somewhere after the boot manager. How do I tell the boot manager that the DOS partition is on another drive? It never bothers to ask. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org