Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:42:21 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on 2nd harddisk Message-ID: <WYGqOXFaJZOKhp4NfV6cp%2Bc6uBfD@4ax.com>
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Klaus Haeberlein wrote: >I am new to FreeBSD and got version 4.1. >I would like to install on my second harddrive, but I do not find any >hint or documentation how to do this. >And also it looks like that the installation routine wants to install >FreeBSD always on the first drive. I've only installed FreeBSD a few times, only once 4.1 and I use IDE HDs. Whenever I've installed to the slave on the first IDE cable, the install procedure asked which drive. ad0 or ad1 for 4.1. It's a separate part of the procedure, after the device config. etc. Did you let the BIOS find the drive parameters? I usually find it's best (with award BIOS) not to use the autodetect setting, but detect the drive manually. Also there have been questions here relating to other OSs = being more likely to work with wrongly set drive jumpers and/or masterless = slaves. >How can install FreeBSD on the second drive without loosing the data on >the first drive. If you know the C:H:S values for the first drive and those values are = shown on the disk slice setup page, or it looks like you're working on ad0; = abort. There's a preview of the installation for 4.0 at http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/40/index.html Good luck John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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