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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