From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 13:26:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24162 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24038 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA09908; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:25:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Dobrowmilski cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: got a few questions..... In-Reply-To: <19980514144923.14018.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Michael Dobrowmilski wrote: > i purchased the BSD 2.2.5 cdrom and had a smooth installation it seems. > > i bought a western digital 2.5 HD to hold the Unix because the 4.1 > primary drive ran out of room. i noticed the 2.5 slave drive dosnt > show up in windows anymore, but it is still in tact.... did i make a > mistake in installation?? FreeBSD uses a filesystem type that Windows doesn't know how to read. When you installed FreeBSD you probably overwrote a FAT filesystem there, so it would appear as if the disk has 'disappeared' but in fact it is still there. > and i was hoping to get some advice on re-doing a boot manager. i > think i either put it into the wrong drive, or neglected to install it > properly. at start up when i press f5 for drive 2, and then f1 for > BSD, it has the boot error. That's usually a geometry problem, but Booteasy install instructions are in the FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message