From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 7 16:08:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB7F16A492 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:08:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A113643D91 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:08:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:08:14 -0500 id 00056415.4550AF6E.00008B30 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Nov 2006 11:07:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:08:14 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: "Bob Schwartz" Message-Id: <20061107110814.b42e8320.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <001a01c70282$13eb9a00$0500a8c0@c1> References: <20061107075922.d7c44977.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <001a01c70282$13eb9a00$0500a8c0@c1> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions on first-time installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:08:28 -0000 In response to "Bob Schwartz" : [snip] > Also, your (or someone else's) suggestion that I disconnect the others for > the moment is a good one...and I guess that that would do, except that I > would not end up with a boot manager when I hook the others back up > afterwards? > > Also, what, if anything, would that do to any of the data on the other > drives after the fact? That's a safe bet, from the standpoint of the Windows installations, but it can cause grief if you try to plug everything back in. I've had problems with the BIOS moving drives around, then FreeBSD can't figure out which drive it should be mounting off. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, all I'm saying is that it might not produce a long-term usable installation. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.