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From: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com>
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Subject: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive
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Hello freebsd-mobile,
i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I
would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose
which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD
newbie.
Could you give me some hints on how to perform this task? What option shoul=
d
i choose for the bootloader?

Thanks in advance for the help,
MC