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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Question
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:13:21 -0600
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In article <5i4oel$pgq$1@news.usit.net>,
	kashin@usit.net writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Does FreeBSD need to be installed in a primary partition on the first drive
> or will it be happy to live on the second or higher hard drive on either a
> primary or logical partition.

My first install of FreeBSD was to a secondary partition on my then
one-and-only hard drive.  Worked fine.

I've since added a second drive, dedicated entirely to FreeBSD.  No
problems there, either.

> I am planning to install FreeBSD soon.  I am using System Commander to
> boot between several OSes.  I would like to install FreeBSD on my third
> hard drive.

I'm not familiar with System Commander, but I don't expect you should have
any major problems installing FreeBSD on any drive/partition you'd like.

Go for it! :-)

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads