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From: dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Install Fbsd, help!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:14:27 GMT
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 I have two option right now, I could ( as I mention early) take out
two of my existing partition and install fbsd on it, or buy another
hard drive (probably another Western Digital 2.5G).  If I buy another
drive, which will be connected to my secondary controller on the
mother board as a slave, 
	
	1. will that be a problem?? 
	2. will the install recognize it as wd2?
	3. do the fbsd bootstrap have to be inside the first 504M
(remember with the old bios and old machine from their 504M limitation
or it doesn't matter now)
	4. can I parition my hard drive, such that the first 1g is
freebsd and the last 1.5 G is primary dos, or does it have to be the
other way around (remember, this is not a boot drive).
Two Question