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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.cs.ucr.edu!zdc!super.zippo.com!szdc!newsp.zippo.com!no!spam From: john@NOSPAMinforef.com (John Marco - Remove `NOSPAM' to reply.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can you install FreeBSD on a second hard drive? Date: 25 Jun 1997 14:26:45 -0700 Organization: The Information Refinery, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <85k9jifk6i.fsf@inforef.com> References: <5o8drq$2ui$1@usc.edu> <5oruvi$l82$1@hecate.umd.edu> X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43528 tomchang@Glue.umd.edu (Tommy Y M Chang) writes: > Rick Lee (isoft@pacbell.net) wrote: > : I have FreeBSD 2.1, 2 CD ROM set, and trying to install on second hard > : drive. Installs fine but cannot boot. I'm using System Commander as a > : boot manager which adds BSD as a menu item after installing FreeBSD > : but when I try to boot the system hangs. I tried Booteasy, standard, > : and leave boot alone options. All hangs when I try to boot. After > : reading through this news group it seems you can install FreeBSD on a > : second hard drive. My first hard drive is full and cannot spare a > : byte. > > : Can somebody quickly tell me if I can install FreeBSD on my second > : hard drive and if so what do I need to do? If not I would like to try > : LINUX which seems to work fine on any drive on any partition. > it's possible that it doesn't support it. Ok, here's how I do it: I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on my second IDE disk. My BIOS only allows booting off of the "C" drive, on which I have a Win95 partition. I run FreeBSD off of my second drive and have the FreeBSD boot manager installed on both drives. Installation was no problem, the partitioning and disk setup phases of the installation gave me the choice of which disk to load FreeBSD onto, and which disks to put the FreeBSD boot manager on. When you boot, the boot manager on the first disk allows you to press "F5" for "second disk", then the boot manager on the second disk allows "F1" for FreeBSD. After you reboot, if you don't press a function key for a couple seconds, the boot manager(s) will default to whatever you booted the last time. -- John Marco / john `@' inforef `.' com (Remove quotes and spaces)