Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:27:08 -0500 From: "Daniel Schrock" <dschrock@enteract.com> To: <Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk Message-ID: <002b01c039d8$bb83cc70$7f7014ac@anondaemon1> References: <065DE87AF392D411A3D800204840A0152E7F65@cbbc805.cb.ic.gc.ca>
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Duriing install you will want to make sure that both disks are set to active Then Boot Easy will install on the master drive and you will be given a choice of operating systems at boot. It will default to bsd, so if booted unattended, your wife will be stuck in bsd. Make sure you teach her how to get out of it if this happens. Fscking fscks!! You can probably change the default OS but i have never tried so i couldn't tell you how to do it. If you find you no longer need/want bsd on that box, you should be able to do a 'format /mbr' in DOS to restore your master boot record to windows only. Also make sure your virus scanner is not set to fix errors on the mbr, it will wipe out the bsd mbr if given the chance. Daniel Schrock i-Help RCN/Enteract 312.955.2951 -direct 312.955.3030 -pod dschrock@enteract.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca> Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions,mpc.lists.freebsd.questions Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:37 AM Subject: RE: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk > It's the wife's Windows Millennium. The master is split up in two 6.5GB > partitions. I can probably resize the 2nd parition to free up some space for > a small /boot partition for BSD *before* the 1024th cylinder. > > What do you think? Ideally, I'd want to leave the master disk untouched. I > tried BootMagic (from the PQMagic suite) and it doesn't seem to be able to > boot anything else than something on the master drive. > > Also, when I did set up FreeBSD, I did not mark the / partition on my slave > disk as bootable. As far as I know, you can't boot off a slave disk. > > Am I wrong? > > Thanks again! > > > Jol Dinel > Competition Bureau > > Tel. (819) 997-2514 > Fax (819) 953-9010 > dinel.joel@ic.gc.ca > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Judd [mailto:jimj@netrake.com] > Sent: October 19, 2000 9:06 AM > To: Dinel, Jol: #CB - BC > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk > > > Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca wrote: > > > For some odd reason, posts made from home never make it to the list, so > here > > goes again from work : > > > > I've got the following setup : > > > > Primary IDE master : 13 GB HD > > Primary IDE slave : 10 GB HD > > > > Secondary IDE master : CDROM > > Secondary IDE slave : CDRW > > > > The primary master is entirely FAT32. I want to dedicate the slave to > > FreeBSD. What do I do during the install to have BSD installed entirely on > > the slave, but have BootEasy write itself to the MBR of the master disk? I > > installed yesterday, with Booteasy (I am supposing it wrote itself to the > > MBR of my slave disk), and I never see the prompt when I boot. > > > > Is there any way of doing this without touching the master disk ? > > > > Thanks ! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > What do you have installed on the primary? Win98, WinNT, W2k... > > jj > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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