Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:20:00 -0400 From: Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca To: dschrock@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk Message-ID: <065DE87AF392D411A3D800204840A0152E7F68@cbbc805.cb.ic.gc.ca>
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Hey thanks for the great advice. So, if I understood correctly : Disk 1 partition 1 (Windows) : set active (already is) Disk 2 partition 1 (BSD) : set active (will do) Then everything should be ok ? Jo=EBl Dinel=20 Competition Bureau=20 Tel. (819) 997-2514=20 Fax (819) 953-9010=20 dinel.joel@ic.gc.ca=20 -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Schrock [mailto:dschrock@enteract.com] Sent: October 19, 2000 10:27 AM To: Dinel, Jo=EBl: #CB - BC Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk Duriing install you will want to make sure that both disks are set to = active Then Boot Easy will install on the master drive and you will be given a choice of operating systems at boot. It will default to bsd, so if = booted unattended, your wife will be stuck in bsd. Make sure you teach her = how to get out of it if this happens. Fscking fscks!! You can probably = change the default OS but i have never tried so i couldn't tell you how to do = it. If you find you no longer need/want bsd on that box, you should be able = to do a 'format /mbr' in DOS to restore your master boot record to windows only. Also make sure your virus scanner is not set to fix errors on the mbr, = it will wipe out the bsd mbr if given the chance. Daniel Schrock i-Help RCN/Enteract 312.955.2951 -direct 312.955.3030 -pod dschrock@enteract.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca> Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions,mpc.lists.freebsd.questions Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:37 AM Subject: RE: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk > It's the wife's Windows Millennium. The master is split up in two = 6.5GB > partitions. I can probably resize the 2nd parition to free up some = space for > a small /boot partition for BSD *before* the 1024th cylinder. > > What do you think? Ideally, I'd want to leave the master disk = untouched. I > tried BootMagic (from the PQMagic suite) and it doesn't seem to be = able to > boot anything else than something on the master drive. > > Also, when I did set up FreeBSD, I did not mark the / partition on my slave > disk as bootable. As far as I know, you can't boot off a slave disk. > > Am I wrong? > > Thanks again! > > > Jo=EBl Dinel > Competition Bureau > > Tel. (819) 997-2514 > Fax (819) 953-9010 > dinel.joel@ic.gc.ca > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Judd=90=90 [mailto:jimj@netrake.com] > Sent: October 19, 2000 9:06 AM > To: Dinel, Jo=EBl: #CB - BC > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Installing 4.1.1 on slave IDE disk > > > Dinel.Joel@ic.gc.ca wrote: > > > For some odd reason, posts made from home never make it to the = list, so > here > > goes again from work : > > > > I've got the following setup : > > > > Primary IDE master : 13 GB HD > > Primary IDE slave : 10 GB HD > > > > Secondary IDE master : CDROM > > Secondary IDE slave : CDRW > > > > The primary master is entirely FAT32. I want to dedicate the slave = to > > FreeBSD. What do I do during the install to have BSD installed = entirely on > > the slave, but have BootEasy write itself to the MBR of the master = disk? I > > installed yesterday, with Booteasy (I am supposing it wrote itself = to the > > MBR of my slave disk), and I never see the prompt when I boot. > > > > Is there any way of doing this without touching the master disk ? > > > > Thanks ! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > What do you have installed on the primary? Win98, WinNT, W2k... > > jj > > > > 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 > 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
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