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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!cayman!stemwinder.FCR.COM!stemwinder!brad From: brad@FCR.COM (Brad Parker) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Date: 26 Aug 93 09:10:51 Organization: FCR Software Inc., Boston, MA Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <BRAD.93Aug26091051@stemwinder.FCR.COM> References: <1993Aug24.015342.14669@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Aug24.024314.15697@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stemwinder.fcr.com In-reply-to: stever@csuohio.edu's message of Tue, 24 Aug 1993 02:43:14 GMT Well, while I thought the discourse was interesting, I have to say I'm confused. I just installed NetBSD-0.9 on my second IDE drive with only one small change to a shell script (the "install" script). 1. I installed booteasy 1.2 on my first IDE driver (which also contains DOS). It will happily boot from the 2nd IDE drive (and remember it for the next time). 2. I used my second 386bsd system (doesn't everyone have 2? ;-) to modify the "install1" disk for NetBSD-0.9 . I change the "install" script to use "wd1" instead of "wd0". This was a change to only one line. (NOTE: it would have be very nice if the script had already allowed for this; next rev?) 3. from then on the install worked fine and was "nominal". just remember to type "wd1" when you install the kernel. 4. when I boot from the second IDE drive, the boot tracks ask me (yea!) what drive/file to boot from. I enter "wd(1,a)/netbsd". Works like a champ. (but, it would be nice if one could configure a default boot disk/file) My only question is where will the default kernel swap to? I'm afraid to ask (and fear for my ms-dos data). I'm still downloading sources so I can't check myself (yet)... -brad -- Politically correct term for `corrupt': Ethically different, morally challenged Brad Parker FCR Software, Inc., Boston, Ma. brad@fcr.com