From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 06:18:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA11655 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 06:18:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net [203.108.7.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA11650; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 06:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell01.ozemail.com.au (rlyon@shell01.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.162]) by server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA29933; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:18:24 +1100 (EST) Received: (from rlyon@localhost) by shell01.ozemail.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.12) id BAA17041; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:18:18 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:18:17 +1100 (EST) From: Richard Lyon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Brian Somers , Joerg Wunsch , Mark Mayo , hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... In-Reply-To: <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Well, my own experience with 2.1.7 and the following configuration: > > Generic 486 blah blah > 2 IDE HDs > 1 AHA 1542 w/HD + CDROM > With 2.1.5 and the following configuration: Generic 486 1 IDE HD 1 AHA 1542 w/HD + CDROM FBSD is on the IDE drive and NT4 is on the SCSI drive. BOOTEASY sees both drives, but of course you can only boot of the first drive because of the limitations of BIOS and the 1542. I use BIOS to switch between NT and FBSD. I always want to be absolutely certain that nothing NT can touch FBSD and vice versa. The current rumour is that a certain NT defragmenter does a lot more than defrag drives (Ref. OP. Alice). Regards ...