Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:33:02 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: erich alfred heine <eheine@students.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing to secondary hdd Message-ID: <20001026193302.A230@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10010261555250.25936-100000@ux10.cso.uiuc.edu>; from eheine@students.uiuc.edu on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10010261555250.25936-100000@ux10.cso.uiuc.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500, erich alfred heine wrote: >Also, when it comes time to get rid of linux on my primary disk and make >it into free space, can I just switch the secondary disk to the primary >disk, and vice versa, since the secondary disk's MBR has the freebsd >loader on it? or would I need to change anything (besides the jumpers on >the hard drives and the cables). While I don't know anything about lilo, I can answer this second question of yours: You do not have to change anything in your hardware setup. I use the FreeBSD loader. I have FreeBSD on the secondary disk, Windows on the primary disk. I have the FreeBSD loader on both disks. When I need Windows, I press F1 and it loads Windows from the primary disk. When I need FreeBSD, I press F5 (go to the secondary disk). At the prompt from the loader on the secondary disk, I then press F2 to boot FreeBSD. Works like charm! Cheers, Adam -- Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I'm repeating myself... -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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