From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 17:48:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF2516A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A6243D2F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59BF2BD75 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:48:17 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D5C2951206; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:18:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:18:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Don Meng Message-ID: <20040123014814.GJ53685@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040123013050.21071.qmail@web40205.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Op27XXJsWz80g3oF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040123013050.21071.qmail@web40205.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where To Install FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:48:24 -0000 --Op27XXJsWz80g3oF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 22 January 2004 at 17:30:50 -0800, Don Meng wrote: > This is my first post to this forum and my question is; > > Are there any restrictions on which IDE drive I can install FreeBSD > on? The primary IDE controller on my machine is already occupied > with two disk drives. I'd like to buy a third drive and make it the > master on the secondary controller and use it exclusively for > FreeBSD. I was browsing through The Complete FreeBSD in the > bookstore and I thought I read that you can install FreeBSD on the > forst or second hard drive. Can anyone clarify this? Thank you. This is a technical question. You should ask it on FreeBSD-questions. -newbies is a discussion forum (and yes, I've been told not to answer technical questions here). Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Op27XXJsWz80g3oF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEH1eIubykFB6QiMRAig3AJ982nIVVbGLuUgEM4WhvoM6TxjWTQCfeyOu J7wI8Jki5ngAhCl+l09TyZA= =MooX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Op27XXJsWz80g3oF--