<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Alex Koch <alexkoch@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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<P>On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:21:54 -0700 (PDT), Ronald Maggio<BR><RON_MAGGIO2004@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>> <BR>> Hello, I have a project that I'm working on and am in need of some advice. <BR>> <BR>> I have an old IBM PC Server 310, I have 2 scsi cards installed. The first<BR>> card has 3 hdd's and scsi cd-rom. This card & drives I would like to install<BR>> Mandrake 7.0 on. <BR>><BR>> The other card has no cd-rom but 4 drives on it, I would like to install<BR>> FreeBSD on this other set of drives. <BR>> <BR>> Is it possible? <BR><BR>The computer should be able to access all of the drives at any time<BR>regardless of what controller you install your OSes on.</P>
<P>> Should I install FreeBSD first then Mandrake? <BR>> <BR>> Will lilo can come up with a boot menu, so I can boot into Mandrake or<BR>> FreeBSD?<BR><BR>The install order should not matter, the only problem might be how you<BR>set up the booting (I'm not sure if mandrake will automatically set up<BR>it's boot loader on the MBR to put a menu item for FreeBSD if it is<BR>already installed if you were to install linux first)</P>
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<P><FONT size=3>Thats my problem, If I install FreeBSD first on card 1 w/4 hdd's, and Mandrake on card 2 w/3 hdd's. </FONT><FONT size=3>I wonder if that will be a problem getting Mandrake to add FreeBSD to the menu? Can only try and see what happens I guess?</FONT></P>
<P><BR><BR>> I bought a book on eBay for $4 The Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition. By Greg<BR>> Lehey Pub: Walnut Creek. (NEW) It has 4 cd-rom's with FreeBSD 4.6 <BR><BR>That is fairly old, the current stable release of freebsd is 4.10 (and<BR>there is a 5.x development branch if you want to try it), you might<BR>want to (if you have broadband) to download the latest install cd. </P>
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<P><FONT size=3>From what I've read so far its based on the 4.4 release. Well I'd like to use the one that came with the book so I can follow along and not run into any problems. </FONT></P><FONT size=3>
<P><BR></FONT>There's also a cd for the ports system (all the 3rd party software). </P>
<P><FONT size=3>Whats a Ports System???</FONT></P>
<P><BR>You can donwload & compile software off the web, or use packages from<BR>the cd.</P>
<P><FONT size=3>Well it comes with 4 cd's so I'm sure its full of software!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Thanks for you input.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Ron<BR></FONT><BR>~ Alex<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>
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