From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 12:47:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18349 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18344 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03158; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:47:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ken Seggerman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To slave or not to slave new 4G hard drive & reinstall In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 in a dual-boot situation with Windows 95 on my > Gateway 133 MHz Pentium machine, and am running out of room on my 2G IDE > hard drive. I have FreeBsd 2.2.2 in the last quarter of the hard drive, > and don't have room to make world, or do much. I have 2.2.5 on the 4 > CD-ROMS. > > I have just bought another IDE hard drive, this one is 4G. I don't want to > re-intall Windows95 or any of my Windows95 applications. > > It would be great if I could put FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the second hard drive, > and give most or all of the first hard drive to Window95. I may want have > Windows NT as well, I don't know. > > Anyway, my question is whether or not under these circumstances, I would > want to slave the two hard drives together. Yes. FreeBSD will actually get angry if you put the 4g on it's own controller -- you'll get the classic ``can't mount root'' panic. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message