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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I install FreeBSD to new SCSI disk? Date: 24 Dec 1995 10:11:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4bj919$cs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bfcnl$sva@hydra.ims.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 johnr@hydra.ims.com (John Roberts) writes: > I have an aging Gateway 486-50DX2 with 24 megs RAM and > an IDE Western Digital 200 meg drive. I've upgraded it > with an Adaptec 1542C (ISA) SCSI card which has my > CD-ROM, ZipDrive and 1.2 gig hard disk hanging off it. > I'd like to just plug in another 1.2 gig (or at least > 540 meg) SCSI drive and install FreeBSD on that. > > Is that possible with the installation? Will FreeBSD > install itself/some boot manager correctly on C: so > I can select between it and Win95? Only if your SCSI adapter is willing to register the third disk as BIOS disk 0x82, so you could boot off it. Even then, FreeBSD's bootstrap is not yet able to correctly determine the disk itself. To illustrate this, look which conclusions the poor little bootstrap could make from the 0x82: 0x82 == we've got all SCSI, so it's sd2. 0x82 == we've got all IDE, so it's wd2. 0x82 == we've got two IDEs, so it's sd0. 0x82 == we've got one IDE, so it's sd1 (which is your case). I'm not sure if booting hd(2,a) would do the trick, but i seem to remember some recent discussion that it doesn't. If you could free up some 20 or 25 MB on your IDE drive, and put the root (and therefore boot) file system there, you're certainly better off. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)