From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 00:04:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA12583 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 00:04:29 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA12575 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 00:04:27 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: SCSI, Warp and FreeBSD To: gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 00:04:04 -0800 (PST) Cc: braddock@byron.apana.org.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511060509.VAA02202@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Nov 5, 95 09:09:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1595 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This will only work if Warp's boot manager can boot from the third drive, and also we'll need to make a special bootblock.. the hd(1,a) hack only works for 1 ide and one scsi I think... the EASIEST thing to do would be to put a small root partition (say 30MB on one of the IDE drives.. this would also have the effect of spreading some of the stuff over an extra spindle...) when you get to do this, give us another call and we can help you with the options. > >When the exams have finished in about a month, I'm planning on > >installing FreeBSD on my machine. The plan is to install a SCSI hard > >drive and put FreeBSD on that. Currently, there are two IDE hard > >drives in the machine, and the OS/2 Boot Manager is on one of them. > > > >What I would like to know is whether I can install FreeBSD on the SCSI > >and add that as an option on the current Boot Manager menu, or whether > >I should buy a larger than planned SCSI and lose the IDE drives and use > >either the Warp or FreeBSD boot managers on that. Essentially, I want > >to minimise the amount of stuffing around I have to do. > > > >Reg. > > Install the SCSI disk into your system. Run Warp's fdisk and us it > to create the partition for FreeBSD and add it to Warp's boot manager. > >From the FreeBSD install, simply replace the partition that you created > with Warp and you should be set. > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >