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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install Fbsd, help!!! Date: 2 Oct 1996 16:39:42 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <52u5se$1uh@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <324aabd4.15318220@news.clover.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <324aabd4.15318220@news.clover.net>, dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan) writes: > 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?? No. > 2. will the install recognize it as wd2? Yep. > 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) The boot blocks must be seen by the BIOS, as must the FreeBSD partition that you are booting from. In your case, wd(2,a) must be readable by the BIOS. > 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). No problems there either. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....