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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with partition editor for 2.1 please :)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:22:47 -0800
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To: Jeff Henning <jeh@barbarian.network.com>

Jeff Henning wrote:
> I select sd1 as the device since I want everything on the second
> hard disk (DOS/Windoze is on sd0).  When the partition editor comes
> up, the only thing listed is something like:
> 
> sd0s1   <none>    DOS

Just exit that one, elect to install the boot manager, then put your
FreeBSD partition on the second drive.  You're just cycling through both
drives at this point, and if you don't want to allocate space on the
first one then don't - just quit.. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project