From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 17:35:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E0F37BB7A for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA58074 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:35:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 19:35:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP: installing IDE drive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a new IDE drive which I want to put into my computer, which is running FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. I attempted this a while back and made horrible mistakes. Now I want to make sure I do it right. I already have 1 SCSI drive and 1 IDE. The SCSI is the primary and is the disk with the OS on it. Alone, it can boot off the SCSI. So what should I do? I get the drive connected, boot it up and start the configuration of this new drive. Then, should I use /stand/sysinstall to configure the new drive? Should I simply use a command-line tool? And most importantly, how can I do it so that I do not change the boot blocks so that it will boot to the SCSI drive after I have done all of this? With /stand/sysinstall I messed up previously and had to start over with a new install. (I am still learning the ropes here) Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message