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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:36:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "John W. Uhler" <juhler@district.vannet.k12.wa.us>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Setup Question for Novice BSD User
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331023526.397A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <01BC3859.58992E90@MONKEY_MASTER>

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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, John W. Uhler wrote:

> Hi, I'm not a member of this list so if you are kind enough to answer, please
> e-mail to me directly.
> 
> I have a pentium pro 200 (two processors) with three scsi devices
> (excluding the controller) on disk 1 I have Windows 95, on disk 2 I have
> Windows NT 4.0 (my primary os) and a free partition of 2 gigs (which is
> where I want to install freeBSD) and a JAZZ drive.  I also have a
> Mitsumi IDE CD-ROM drive.  I am trying to install 2.1.7 (and soon 2.2). 

No problem.

> 1) can I use the boot manager and keep my current configuration, even
> though BSD isn't on the first drive, and if so do I install in on drive
> 1 or drive 2? 

Yes. install the boot manager manually to the first disk in the system,1.

> 2) When the install comes up should I tell BSD that I'm installing from
> a Mitsumi CD or from a DOS partition since it is an IDE cd-rom? 

Installing from CDROM, assuming it's detected.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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