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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.71.1.61!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody 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 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1rp6i5.9c3.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <5i4oel$pgq$1@news.usit.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38515 In article <5i4oel$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