From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 12:46:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA05065 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:46:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05060 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:45:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA03532; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:47:20 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:47:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Stephen Pearson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, spearson@cpcug.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Stephen Pearson wrote: > I looked through as many of the posted docs as I could get to, but did > not see an explicit answer to the following question. I have a 486 PC > with 2 IDE hard drives. Physical drive 1 has a primary DOS partition > (C:) and an extended DOS partition (E:). Physical drive 2 also has a DOS > partition (D:), but has no data on it. Can I install FreeBSD 2.1 on > physical drive 2, in place of the DOS partition (drive D:)? Thanks in > advance for your answer. Yes; you will have to delete the logical drive and partition off of your second disk using FDISK. ** This is going to change your drive letters, since drive D: will no longer exist -- your current E: will become D:. ** Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major