From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 20:27:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00967 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 20:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA00962 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 20:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA28599; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 20:26:39 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 20:26:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: MR REGGIE H KNAPP cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot manager In-Reply-To: <199607071743.NAA27624@mime4.prodigy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, MR REGGIE H KNAPP wrote: > I have Windows 95 installed and it is using nearly all of drive C. I > have a new drive that is at present unknow to Windows. I intend to > use this drive for FreeBSD and perhaps other OSes. I assume I need > to get the Boot Manager on to the beginning of drive C, but intend to > tell the FreeBSD install program to use only the second (drive D) > disk. Will the boot manager be placed on drive C automatically? No, it will not. I believe the proper procedure is to install it anyway, then install booteasy manually onto the first disk from the CD-ROM. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major