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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 19:35:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   HELP: installing IDE drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005131935080.57190-100000@home.offwhite.net>

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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

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