Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:15:37 +0300 (EEST) From: Sergey Pukach <pss@gloom.te.net.ua> To: Christine.Duchaine@wanadoo.fr (Christine Duchaine) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to install FreeBSD on a slave disk ? Message-ID: <199708021515.SAA00349@gloom.te.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <33E2BB64.573E@wanadoo.fr> from Christine Duchaine at "Aug 1, 97 09:45:24 pm"
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> Hi, > > Sorry for this novice question .... > > I would like to install FreeBSD on a secondary (slave) hard disk. > Here is my configuration : > > First disk (500 MB) : primary (Master) hard disk with DOS installed. > Second Disk (2500 MB) : Secondary (Slave) disk. > > I would like to install FreeBSD on the first 500 MB of the > second disk, and the remaining of the 2nd disk would be > an extended DOS partition. > > I have tried this configuration, but my PC always boots on the > DOS partition of the first disk. Did you succesfully finished installation ? Did you mark FreeBSD slice as active ? If so just run bootinst.exe - it can be found at FreeBSD CDROM. Say 'yes' to install BootEasy to first disk and 'no' to second. > Is this configuration completely stupid ? Or is there a way > to run it. I'm using almost the same configuration - 1.7Gb master divided between DOS and BSDi, and second 3.2Gb disk dedicated to FreeBSD. My favorite :) pss // Sergey Pukach // pss@te.net.ua > > Any help, any information would be appreciated.... > Please would you mind answering directly to : > christine.duchaine@wanadoo.fr > > Thanks you > > Sincerely > > Christine >
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