> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric
> Kjeldergaard
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:30 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Jerry McAllister; CARRIE WUERFEL; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re:
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:03, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> > Jerry,
> >
> > Well, of course it's going to "muck with the other drive" what
> > do you think writing the MBR does? Do you want to risk the MS system
> > not booting? 95% of the time it will work OK but what if her system
> > is in t
> PC bioses only let you boot off of drive C. If you install this
> other drive as drive D then during the installation FreeBSD is going
> to have to write a boot loader onto C so that when the PC boots
> it will load the boot loader, which will then load the FreeBSD system
> off drive D.
This is
>
> Jerry,
>
> Well, of course it's going to "muck with the other drive" what
> do you think writing the MBR does? Do you want to risk the MS system
> not booting? 95% of the time it will work OK but what if her system
> is in that 5% of the time that it doesen't? You going to go
> over to her
n one operating system.
Ted
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry
> McAllister
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:24 AM
> To: CARRIE WUERFEL
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Mucking with other drive
>
> I am currently stuck running Windows Me on a Dell Desktop Pentium 3 1ghrtz
> with 512mb ram. I recently dusted off a old hard drive that contains a whole
> 2 gigs of hard drive space. I have installed the hard disk drive and am
> wanting to install "FreeBsd" on it. Before I go about muck
