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From: jhenders@vanbc.wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD install - suggestions needed
Date: 21 Jan 1995 19:32:22 -0800
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
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I have a rather crowded setup on my computer, and I want to
complicate it more by installing FreeeBSD. I have 2 IDE drives, one with
DOS and one with OS/2. I also have a 1542b with 2 scsi drives, one of
which has linux on it. I want to put FreeBSD on the other.
Because the 1542b bios doesn't work with 2 IDE drives in place,
I have a 15 meg partition on one of the IDE drives that I use to put
linux kernels on, and the DOS, OS/2 and 15meg linux partition are all
active and selectable from the OS/2 boot manager. I am planning, if it's
possible, to split the 15 meg partition and use a similar method to boot
FreeBSD if posssible.
However, after reading the INSTALL txt and the FAQ, a few things
aren't clear and I was hoping someone could suggest the most elegant way
to get FreeBSD onto this setup. Feel free to point me to any other
install documentation I may have missed.
I tried to install from the boot floppys from ftp.cdrom.com. I
partitioned the disk, but when it came time to roboot, there was, of
course, no way to to boot from the scsi drive. Is there a way to tell
the boot kernel on the floppy to mount the scsi file system? Also, I
didn't see it written down anywhere, but can I put the bindist/* files
on a dos partition and install them from there?
The alternatives I see are a) Disconnect my OS/2 ide drive and
re jumper the dos drive, so the boot loader can boot the kernel from the
scsi drive, or b) Attempt to do a minimal install on the 15 meg ide
partition and mount the scsi as /usr until I can get enough FreeBSD
installed to change things around to boot the way I want. If no one can
suggest a more elegant way, option b would be my preference, if
possible.
Suggestions?
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