From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 13:50:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28973 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 13:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28963 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 13:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from suleyman@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (suleyman@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00543; Sat, 9 May 1998 16:50:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 16:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman To: Doug White 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 Doug: Thank you for your reply. Just the sort of information I was waiting for before opening up the case. Once I put the new drive in, I assume that I make the smaller original drive the master, and the second larger drive the slave, allowing me to leave Windows95 and the dual-boot controller where they are. I assume that if I give Windows more room, and move the FreeBSD boot sector, that I will have to somehow inform the dual-boot controller of the new address for the FreeBSD boot sector. I hope that this will all be handled by menu-dirven options in the 2.2.5 graphical installer. On Sat, 9 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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