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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 2000 15:05:42 -0400
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Chris M Worman <cmw133@cs.usask.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing with two hard drives
Message-ID:  <3991AB86.F2456FE8@mitre.org>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008091246260.19526-100000@ultra10a.usask.ca>

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Chris M Worman wrote:
> 
> Here's my situation :
> 
> I have a PC at home running Win95 :(.
> I have one hard drive that is almost completely full (comprised of Win95 +
> Win95 apps that, unfortunatley, I can't afford to delete).
> I just bought another hard drive (plenty big) which is empty and not
> being used.
> Is it possible to install Free BSD (or any flavor of BSD) on the second
> hard drive and have a boot manager allow me to boot either OS even though
> they're on seperate hard drives.
> 
> All the pages I've found tell you how to partition an existing hard drive
> and share the drive between the two OS's.

No problem, just install FreeBSD on the second HD, and install a boot
manager on the first drive, like you said in your post. 


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