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From: gokhale@mambo.cs.wustl.edu (Aniruddha Gokhale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD)
Date: 5 Aug 1996 10:20:43 -0500
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
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Message-ID: <4u53gb$6ik@mambo.cs.wustl.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mambo.cs.wustl.edu
Hello,
I am trying to install FreeBSD on my PC which is running Windows 95.
I am trying to understand the installation procedure described in the
installation guide that came along with the Walnut Creek CDROM as well
as the FAQ, but I am still having problems understanding the
installation procedure.
I have 2 hard disks. One of them is a 1.2 GB disk (master) and the
other one is a 1.6 GB (slave) (both Western Digital IDE). I want
Windows 95/DOS and its applications to exist on one hard disk and
FreeBSD on the other. I do not want to share any of the
disks. Instead, one disk will be exclusively used for Windows 95 and
the other for FreeBSD. I found information in the FAQ and the guide
about sharing OSs by partitioning a single disk or two disks and using
part of each one for both the OSs. Is there any way I can have each
individual disk be exclusively used for separate OSs. In such a case,
how should I configure the boot record so that at boot time, I can
have a choice of booting to the desired operating system.
I will appreciate any help in this regard.
Thanks
Aniruddha
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Aniruddha S. Gokhale http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~gokhale
Office Dept of CS, Washington Univ
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Phone : (314) 935-4425