From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 10:22:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ntas02.softwareguaranty.com (ntas02.softwareguaranty.com [206.186.201.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB8511391 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from victorch@softwareguaranty.com) Received: by ntas02.softwareguaranty.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:21:25 -0500 Message-ID: <11DBDD569636D111A42600A0C984502233E1F1@ntas02.softwareguaranty.com> From: Victor Cheung To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Trying to install 3.1 Release... Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:21:24 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I'm trying to setup the following on my home PC: primary master: 6.4GB IDE with Windows 95B (FAT32) (C:\) secondary master: 6.4GB IDE (FAT32) -- storage drive (D:\) secondary slave: 3.2GB IDE (165) FreeBSD 3.1 Release (previously my E:\ drive) I've tried twice already (via FTP install), but I can't get it to work the way I want. I would like to be able to choose at boot-time which OS to run (Win95 or FreeBSD). The first time I installed FreeBSD, I chose to dedicate the entire secondary slave drive to FreeBSD (ie. "dangerously dedicated"), only to realize at the end of installing, I wasn't prompted about installing any boot manager. And as expected, my computer loaded Win95 as usual upon reboot (only difference is that it can't see the secondary drive anymore). The second time installing FreeBSD, I chose the other "true partition" option (ie. it split the physical 3.2GB drive into 3 partitions: first and last partitions very small, the middle partition for FreeBSD). This time I was prompted about installing a boot manager and I chose the option that would do this (the other two options were install a normal MBR, and not to do anything at all, or something like that). Anyhow, after installing and rebooting, my computer loaded into Win95 again with no trace of any 'boot manager'. My questions now are: Does the install process assume the user will install on the primary master drive only? (ie. partition the C: drive) How can I achieve, if possible, the setup I described? (incidentally, a friend of mine suggested using System Commander... I'd prefer using a boot manager native to FreeBSD to do this though) Thanks in advance! This is my first time trying to setup FreeBSD to co-exist with Win 95 (or any other OS for that matter). --Victor P.S.: On a side note, after my first FreeBSD ("dangerously dedicated") install, I tried loading FreeBSD by changing the boot sequence in my BIOS to 'run' the secondary slave drive first instead of the usual 'floppy drive, primary master drive' sequence. Well, this worked up to a point, then it got some error (about mounting or something) and stopped. I assumed the error was related to the positioning of the drives and then decided to install again (trying to get the boot manager this time). That is, my assumption was if I had opened my computer to physically connect the FreeBSD drive in place of the primary master -- it would have worked. Can anyone confirm this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message