From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 20:26:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25488 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-112-18.bellatlantic.net [151.197.112.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25466 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA00642; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:25:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@localhost Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Timothy J Luoma cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD and a 4gb drive In-Reply-To: <199806170022.UAA14444@luomat.peak.org> 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, 16 Jun 1998, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Howdy all. > > I'm about 2 days away from my first FreeBSD installation attempt (whoo whee!). > > Here's my question: > > Can FreeBSD: > Be loaded after the first 2gb > Be booted from not the first hard drive Yep, done both of those. Only problem I had with on the second drive is taht the boot manager had me choose the second drive then freebsd before it would boot. Eample for clarity /// forgive me for not remembering the exact prompt but the idea will be /// clear once you see it Default F2 F1 HPFS F2 DISK 2 Choose a drive: // User presses F2 then I saw Default F1 F1 BSD F2 DISK 1 Choose a Drive: //////////////////////////////////// I am sure there is probably a way around this behavior, but I am not sure what. I only seen it on the second drive on a friends machine. I have it in the last 2gb of my 4gb drive here. James > > Thanks! > > TjL > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message