From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 5:16:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail03.vsnl.net (mail03.vsnl.net [203.197.12.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899E837B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from subdimension.com ([203.197.58.154]) by mail03.vsnl.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G7MA6S03.5T2 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:46:04 +0530 Message-ID: <3A6D8354.5A679C86@subdimension.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:42:52 +0530 From: Ani D X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot manager and filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi i've got two hard disks. 4.2GB and 2.1GB. ad0 and ad2 (as shown in the freebsd install). now, i have windows on ad0 and want to install freebsd on ad2. when it asks me on which drive i want to install freebsd, i say ad2 and it takes me to a screen where it shows the partition info of ad2. that was the simple part. at this point it hasn't asked me to give the filesystem breakup info. next, it asks wether i want to install the freebsd boot manager in the mbr or standard boot loader or whatever. i choose the first option and then it asks on which disk. ad2 is already checked (probably because of the last step) here, i need need the boot loader in the mbr. so that's on ad0. so i uncheck ad2 and say ad0. but then it asks me to give the filesystem info like where to put swap, the native slice, etc. thing is...it automatically choses ad0 for the filesystem. how do i change this? when i go back and come to the bootmanager question and chose the first option, it directly takes me to the screen where i have to set up the filesystem structure. here, is there any way i can indicate that it has to be on ad2? where do i indicate which partition is bootable? when i said ad0 (on my last attempt) i got a boot loader that can load windows but chosing freebsd lands me at the boot prompt. what do i do? thanks ani d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message