From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 11:08:11 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 680B216A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1E043D54 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:1123 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1Ak6eO-0000Dx-3n; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:07:28 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:00:14 -0800 Received: from Siemens.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDN3F5KV; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:58:50 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Don Meng Message-ID: <40117067.3050904@Siemens.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:05:11 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20040123013050.21071.qmail@web40205.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040123013050.21071.qmail@web40205.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1Ak6eO-0000Dx-3n*0/nziK.8gPg* 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 19:08:11 -0000 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. Semi-technical discussion style answer... I'm sure there are some restrictions, but I've never encountered any yet. On my old system I installed FreeBSD to the second drive (not counting CDROM drives) which was the master on the secondary controller. Ditto for my machine at work. My current system has two SATA drives which are on the third and fourth controllers (CDRW and DVD are on the IDE controllers), with no problems. But that said, I've never used FreeBSD in a three harddrive system. But I can think of no reason why you can't do this. David