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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!wdl1!wdl1!rpt From: rpt@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Richard P Toren) Subject: FreeBSD 2.0R MultiBoot questions Message-ID: <1994Nov27.004113.6909@wdl.loral.com> Sender: news@wdl.loral.com Organization: Loral Western Development Labs Distribution: na Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 00:41:13 GMT Lines: 43 Questions about the MultiBoot procedures with FreeBSD 2.0R. To the point. I have ftp'd the text files from FreeBSD.org in preparation for my first attempt to install a real OS on my PC. There was a walkthrough of an installation, that covered the ideal situation. I am concerned because my setup will be not so simple. Config 486DX 66 IDE 340MB drive for DOS and windows BusLogic 445c SCSI controller. Plextor CD on 445c Soundblaster 16 SCSI (upgrade to ATI GUP) (upgrade w/ 500+ Mb SCSI disk) 1) How does any of this walkthrough change (logically) with the installation on drive 1? I assume the IDE will be drive 0. 2) I plan to dedicate the entire SCSI dick to FreeBSD. This means no DOS partition. The 445c has the bios turned off. Will the MultiBoot be placed on drive 0 or 1? 3) Is there a DOS program that will cause the machine to wipe out DOS and boot up in unix? I think I read about this in the Dr. Dobbs atricles a couple of years ago when the 386BSD port was being serialized. 4) Is system boot the only time FreeBSD can be selected? ( I know you can't swap back and forth between the two.) I have FreeBSD 2.0R on order from Walnut Creek. I have been preparing for this event for 6 months now. I have worked parttime as a sysadmin on SunOS, Venix, and OSF/1; but this has always been at the user level (new users, network config, daemon configs, etc) but never with kernal rebuilding or internals). The bottom line is should I drop the $800 I am planning to use to upgrade my system, just to find that it won't configure in any but the ideal hardware configuration? A first time Unix/PC user Rip Toren rpt@wdl.loral.com