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From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on second IDE drive
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:11:28 +0200
Organization: Internet Africa
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On Mon, 20 May 1996, Brian Springstead wrote:

> I'm looking to install FreeBSD on a machine, but it will
> have to be on the second IDE drive (D: in DOS).  Someone
> told me that this isn't possible with FreeBSD.  Is he 
> correct or incorrect?  I checked the FAQ and didn't find
> the answer.

It is correct. What you need to do is install FreeBSD (I go through
the Novice installation), choose the drive you wish to run FreeBSD
on (in your case, wd1), create the partition (do not make it the entire 
partition - if you want to, choose entire disk and then choose retain 
compatibility, make it bootable, choose to install Bootmgr, and that's
it (or at least that worked for me)!
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