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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: jvschw@ibm.net (John Schweinfurth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can Freebsd be installed on 2HD? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:30:24 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3smnav$27tv@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <3sl111$bht@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> Reply-To: jvschw@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip7-28.fl.us.ibm.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 rshum@bnr.ca (Roger Shum) wrote: >Hi, everyone, >I am planning to install FreeBsd or NetBsd on my 486/33 computer. My >problem is that I have 2HD - one 504M and one 124M. The 124M one contains my >DOS system. I plan to put OS/2 and BSD in the 504M one. >As far as I know, DOS has to boot from C:, so I have to put the 124M HD as C: >and the 504M as D:. My question is: can FreeBsd/NetBsd be booted from the 2nd >HD - D: or E:? I am planning to use BootManger from OS/2 to select the OS >at bootup time. Any other good boot manger around ? Yes, I have FreeBSD 2.0.5R setup on my second IDE drive. The key is to tell the FreeBSD installation routine (fdisk) not to mess with the master-boot-record. After FreeBSD's installation, the FreeBSD partition will appear as a primary partition to OS/2's boot manager. All you need to do to is FDISK from OS/2 and add the FreeBSD partition to the boot manager menu. I'm not sure if this works with earlier versions of FBSD or NetBSD. ---------------------------- | Send replies to | | jvschw@ibm.net | | 73777.671@compuserve.com | ----------------------------