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From: Glenn Davis <glenn@vambo.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing BSD
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:27:13 +0000
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In article <5as44m$62r@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch
<j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes
>"Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> I installed freeBSD, fine but i think it puts the loader on the second
>> drive, because my computer starts up with windows.
>
>You need to tell it to put the boot selector on both drives. Your
>BIOS boots only the first drive, so the BSD bootstrap on the second
>drive will never be reached.
>
>> And my last question, how to tell BSD I have a ide cdrom on my second
>> controller?
>
>It is supposed to detect it there itself. If it doesn't, you need a
>CD-ROM drive that's more ATAPI-compliant, or might try to see whether
>upgrading to FreeBSD 2.2(-BETA by now) would fix your troubles.
>
If one had a working 2.1.5 BSD system (but no CD) what files
would be required from 2.2 to gain the newer ATAPI support
--
Glenn Davis