Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:31:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: RCB <rbeer@jaguar.cris.com> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General comments Message-ID: <16598.858155474@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:09:06 PST." <199703120709.XAA26760@jaguar.cris.com>
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> The biggest "issue" I ran into was installing FreeBSD at home on a > 2-SCSI disk system. My first scsi drive is for Windows, my second > scsi drive has FreeBSD installed. It was not clear how to have the > FreeBSD boot manager installed on the first SCSI drive and allow it to > boot either the Win95 or FreeBSD systems. Reading the handbook and This has been cleaned up in the documentation - now it says that to do this, you simply have to visit your first drive and make no changes to the partition layout (unless you want some FreeBSD bits to actually land on that drive) but select a boot manager. That will do the trick for you, in the same manner as RedHat and the others. > That is about it. Again, great work. After all the headaches and > hours of wasted time due to sloppy Linux distributions, poor testing, > and extensively bloated kernels, I think I'll stick with FreeBSD. Glad to hear it! :) Jordan
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