From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 10 04:33:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA10821 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 04:33:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA10809 ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 04:33:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03932; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:33:03 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA29658; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:33:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA07157; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:31:40 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506101131.NAA07157@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: dual drives/controllers To: dleeds@eagle.ais.net (Daniel Leeds) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:31:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Daniel Leeds" at Jun 9, 95 06:40:53 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 779 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Daniel Leeds wrote: > > Hi, > > Can I run two Operating Systems off my pc with this config. > > I will have 4 drives. One IDE boot disk to run Windows/Dos, plus a > buslogic controller that controls 3 other drives...a 500 root disk, 250 > swap disk, and a 2gb storage disk for FreeBSD. is this possible to use > with the available boot managers so I can boot and choose either Windows > or BSD and easily boot either? I think so, yes. You're going to boot off the second drive, and the remaining drives are not of interest for FreeBSD. On which controller are drives 3 & 4? (Disclaimer: i've never used bteasy myself.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)