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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!delphi.com!usenet From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partition help in FreeBSD Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 10:10:11 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5lOQkh7.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <324aab95.15254412@news.clover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1d.delphi.com X-To: Dominic W. Chan <dwchan@telerama.lm.com> Dominic W. Chan <dwchan@telerama.lm.com> writes: >I have a Dell Pentium Pro with 32 MB of Ram and 2 IDE drive. 8x IDE >(atapi CD-ROM), adapter 2940 UW connected to my External Zip Drive, >USR 28.8 ext, SB 32AWE, #9 Imagine Series II video card, 3com >fastEthernet 10/100 baseT PCI NIC. What I did was buy an internal jaz drive, make it scsi id 0, and do the O.S. switch via the BIOS configuration "boot from SCSI | IDE" selection. I also switched to a SCSI cdrom, because the IDE CDROMs tend to mysteriously disappear following installation. ( I've learned some things since I went (iterating) through the initial learning curve, however, and don't know if this is absolutely necessary) In my case, I've got NT, win95, and even some legacy supportive WFWG installed on the IDE side of this machine, enough to get NT off and running on its own, non ID 0, scsi drive. Works great.