Re: FreeBSD on external Hard Disk

2004-09-04 Thread BSDjunkie
In my humble opinion: I'd try FreeBSD anyday over Fedora... Though I do love GNU/Linux and will always have a good opinion of it. Redhat distros are not my favorite. I'd much prefer Slackware or Debian. But that's just me... Mark --- Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The installation to e

Re: FreeBSD on external Hard Disk

2004-08-31 Thread Subhro
The installation to external hard disk is exactly the same as if you had another internal drive. Only the external Hard disk will show up as da0 and you need to keep an eye on which drive you are partitioning. Select to install the Boot Manager in the MBR when sysinstall asks for it. alternative yo

FreeBSD on external Hard Disk

2004-08-31 Thread Olivier Renard
Hello, I am new to FreeBSD, hence this question regarding the installation of FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an external hard disk. I was considering buying a Maxtor One-Touch (USB and FireWire, 80GB) to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it. I already have Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 2 installed on an Acer TravelMate