From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 11:24:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC3414BF7 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27233; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Russ Heibel Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Solaris & Win95 In-Reply-To: <01BE8B4B.9E1D9720@heibelr.i2k.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Russ Heibel wrote: > I am trying to add a 2nd HDD to my computer to hold Solaris so I can > run either Win95 from HDD1 or Solaris from HDD2. The only way I have > been able to do this is to connect only one of the hard drives up in > the system at a time. This is a terrible nuisance. I have tried > Partition Magic with absolutely no luck. I can find no way for it to > allow me to boot Solaris. Will FreeBSD allow me to satisfy this need? > If so, can someone help me find the steps to go through to do this and > tell me how I can get hold of FreeBSD? Hm, from personal experience the Solaris bootloader is actually pretty good. I'm surprised you're having such a problem. FreeBSD's boot-time selector should handle this with no problem. What disk configuration do you have? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message