Re: Where To Install FreeBSD?

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 01/23/04

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    Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:18:14 +1030
    To: Don Meng <mengd2002@yahoo.com>
    
    
    

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    On Thursday, 22 January 2004 at 17:30:50 -0800, Don Meng wrote:
    > This is my first post to this forum and my question is;
    >
    > Are there any restrictions on which IDE drive I can install FreeBSD
    > on? The primary IDE controller on my machine is already occupied
    > with two disk drives. I'd like to buy a third drive and make it the
    > master on the secondary controller and use it exclusively for
    > FreeBSD. I was browsing through The Complete FreeBSD in the
    > bookstore and I thought I read that you can install FreeBSD on the
    > forst or second hard drive. Can anyone clarify this? Thank you.

    This is a technical question. You should ask it on
    FreeBSD-questions. -newbies is a discussion forum (and yes, I've been
    told not to answer technical questions here).

    Greg

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