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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Can freeBSD be installed on a ez135
Message-ID: <Dr6w74.5nr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <318ba121.1466232@news> <Dqzw4o.6By@slugvine.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:33:04 GMT
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In article <Dqzw4o.6By@slugvine.demon.co.uk> jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) writes:
>>I would like to try free bsd with Xwindows but can not risk messing up
>>my hard drive .
>
>I think you're out of luck.
I don't have the original article, but assuming it's a SCSI EZ135 you
should be able to do it, because it just looks like a SCSI disk.
How you refer to it at the boot: prompt depends on what other disks
you have. If you have:
- one SCSI disk, it's sd(1,a)
- n-1 SCSI disks, it's sd(n,a)
- one IDE disk, it's hd(1,a)
- more than one IDE disk, or an IDE disk and a SCSI disk, you'll
probably need to make a special version of the boot blocks (or
does the boot program now have a syntax for this?)
-- Richard
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