From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 12: 3:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA8837BB67 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02429 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20155 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:01:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZ1GXO00.609; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:03:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3991AB86.F2456FE8@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 15:05:42 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris M Worman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing with two hard drives References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message