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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:57:37 +0530
From: Ani D <aneroid@subdimension.com>
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hi
i've got two hard disks. 4.2GB and 2.1GB. ad0 and ad2 (as shown in the
freebsd install). now, i have windows on ad0 and want to install freebsd
on ad2. when it asks me on which drive i want to install freebsd, i say
ad2 and it takes me to a screen where it shows the partition info of
ad2. that was the simple part. at this point it hasn't asked me to give
the filesystem breakup info.

next, it asks wether i want to install the freebsd boot manager in the
mbr or standard boot loader or whatever. i choose the  first option and
then it asks on which disk. ad2 is already checked (probably because of
the last step) here, i need need the boot loader in the mbr. so that's
on ad0. so i uncheck ad2 and say ad0. but then it asks me to give the
filesystem info like where to put swap, the native slice, etc. thing
is...it automatically choses ad0 for the filesystem. how do i change
this? when i go back and come to the bootmanager question and chose the
first option, it directly takes me to the screen where i have to set up
the filesystem structure. here, is there any way i can indicate that it
has to be on ad2?

where do i indicate which partition is bootable? when i said ad0 (on my
last attempt) i got a boot loader that can load windows but chosing
freebsd lands me at the boot prompt.

what do i do?

thanks
ani d


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