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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: nicholas johnson <nick@mljindy.pharm.virginia.edu>
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Subject: Re: Install to Alternate Drives
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On Sun, Aug 31, 1997 at 09:04:19AM -0400, nicholas johnson wrote:
> Hello.
> 	I was wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD onto for
> example a second hard drive or a ZIP drive.  The install program
> automatically chooses drive C, is there any way around this?

This is not correct.  "Drive C" is an idea in the mind of DOS.  The
install program gives you complete freedom of where to put your
FreeBSD partitions, even to the extent of making the system
unbootable.

Greg