From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 8:42:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969B037B43E for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn37-ras3.screaming.net [212.49.226.37]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA24135 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:45:22 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on 2nd harddisk Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:42:21 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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