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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: setting-up on a 3 HD system Date: 17 Dec 93 05:29:14 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec17052914@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Dec11.225508.10088@csi.uottawa.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: u646379@csi.uottawa.ca's message of Sat, 11 Dec 93 22:55:08 GMT In article <1993Dec11.225508.10088@csi.uottawa.ca> u646379@csi.uottawa.ca (Your name) writes: hello I want to install FreeBSD soon, but I have a question regarding what boot program I should use. This is my projected setup: IDE 1 (256MB): DOS 6.0 partition (100%) IDE 2 (105MB): OS/2 2.1 HPFS partition (100%) SCSI HD1(1.2GB): Partition 1 (600MB) DOS 6.0 Partition 2 (600MB) FreeBSD I have been told to try OS-BS, but I have read in the FreeBSD installation notes that it cannot boot from a second HD. Does the above set-up mean I can't use it? You can use OS-BS (and it works well), you just have to have a small root partition on your first disk - that is unless the stuff in /sys/i386/stand can figure out where it booted from. P.S. Is anyone planning on changing the 'main' calls to '__main' ? Brian. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>