From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 18:25:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C1437B401 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 18:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B3143F3F for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 18:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from onederer@myrealbox.com) Received: from Dell onederer@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [207.5.222.104] $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Fri, 04 Jul 2003 18:25:34 -0700 Message-ID: <003901c34294$4f5d6660$0afea8c0@Dell> From: "Onederer" To: Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:25:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Can I do that? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 01:25:35 -0000 I acquired a Buslink 1394 Firewire 80GB hard drive, in which I would = like to install FreeBSD, to try it out. So far, except for Mandrake = 9.1, none of the other Linux distros have been able to find and install = itself on the Firewire bus. So now, this would give me /dev/hda for WindowsXP Pro, /dev/hdb for = Mandrake 9.1, and /dev/sda for (maybe?) FreeBSD. I am (was) reserving this extra drive to try different distros. My = computer has 700+MB of ram, and it is a 3.06GHz hyperthreading chip. I = would be using Mandrake's Lilo to boot into FreeBSD. Can your distro find and use, and install itself into a Firewire bus? Thanks