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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
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Subject: Re: Shared-OS Multi-Disk Configuration
To: pjaffray@earthlink.net (Paul Jaffray)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:42:44 -0400 (EDT)
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 |The question:
 |
 |Is there a way to install and then boot FreeBSD on the second ide disk
 |without modify the first disk (except possibly the master boot record)?

Certainly.  No tricks are necessary to my knowledge.  Just boot the boot
floppy, fdisk, partition, and load your software.  

Incidentally, I've done this and have one version of FreeBSD on one drive
with DOS, and another version of FreeBSD on the other drive with DOS and
Linux.  With a 2Gig IDE disk, you'll want to be running BIOS LBA if you
aren't already (see your motherboard manual or boot-up config screens for
details).  Also, I'm using the OS/BS 2.0b8 (OSBS20B8) boot loader -- see
the dosutils directory on ftp.freebsd.org.

You also might find the Multi-OS tutorial off the FreeBSD home page helpful.

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com