Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 16:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To slave or not to slave new 4G hard drive & reinstall Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980509163357.27028A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509124640.3051P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug: Thank you for your reply. Just the sort of information I was waiting for before opening up the case. Once I put the new drive in, I assume that I make the smaller original drive the master, and the second larger drive the slave, allowing me to leave Windows95 and the dual-boot controller where they are. I assume that if I give Windows more room, and move the FreeBSD boot sector, that I will have to somehow inform the dual-boot controller of the new address for the FreeBSD boot sector. I hope that this will all be handled by menu-dirven options in the 2.2.5 graphical installer. On Sat, 9 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 in a dual-boot situation with Windows 95 on my > > Gateway 133 MHz Pentium machine, and am running out of room on my 2G IDE > > hard drive. I have FreeBsd 2.2.2 in the last quarter of the hard drive, > > and don't have room to make world, or do much. I have 2.2.5 on the 4 > > CD-ROMS. > > > > I have just bought another IDE hard drive, this one is 4G. I don't want to > > re-intall Windows95 or any of my Windows95 applications. > > > > It would be great if I could put FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the second hard drive, > > and give most or all of the first hard drive to Window95. I may want have > > Windows NT as well, I don't know. > > > > Anyway, my question is whether or not under these circumstances, I would > > want to slave the two hard drives together. > > Yes. FreeBSD will actually get angry if you put the 4g on it's own > controller -- you'll get the classic ``can't mount root'' panic. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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