On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Mike Shlitz wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:38:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mike Shlitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: install questions > > I have an older machine, Pentium 233 MMX, 256MB SDRAM, 512 cache, (2) Western >Digital 8.4 GB HDD, 24X CDROM, 2X CDRW. > I am presently running it as a Win ME machine, with the (C:\) drive (hda) set as >"primary master" and the (D:\) drive (hdb) set as "primary slave". The CDROM is set >as the "secondary master", with the CDRW set as "secondary slave". > > My intention is to run a tri-boot machine letting Slackware 8.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2 >split the second drive. > > I also have V-Com's System Commander 7.05 software available. > > I ran RedHat 5.x a few years ago, successfully sharing a single drive with windoze >and using an older version of system commander. > > 1. Should I change the harddrives so that C:\ is primary master and D:\ is secondary >master? >
Drive layout should be fine. Linux and BSD are fine on a secondary drive. In fact, I'm not sure 'secondary' has any meaning beyond positional outside DOS. > 2. Should I use the "System Commander" software? > Some people use System Commander at work. It's nice software, but GRUB is nice also, possibly nicer. In any event just as powerful. You may want to check it out. > 3. Should I install Slackware or FreeBSD first? Does it matter? > If you've been using Slack for a while, install that first and (if you decide to check it out) install/configure GRUB from slack. If this is your first foray into BSD, you may end up breaking it once in a while. LILO, as installed by Slack, will boot DOS and BSD and Slack just fine. As someone else has stated, I believe BSD requires a primary partition although Slack works fine on an extended partition. Should be a piece of cake to dual-boot that second drive. Trickiest part for me (at first) was understanding how BSD slices up its partition. My $0.02 :-) JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
