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From: brad@FCR.COM (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: changing bootwd for 2nd IDE drive? [NetBSD]
Date: 19 Sep 93 09:20:40
Organization: FCR Software Inc., Boston, MA
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Message-ID: <BRAD.93Sep19092040@stemwinder.FCR.COM>
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first off, I'd like thanks everyone who worked on NetBSD 0.9.  I've
installed it four times now and I love it.  It's real stable and has
lots of little corners sanded smooth. 

[aside - I remember installing BSD on vaxen.  it was, well, not for the
faint of heart.  Then we got suns.  Sun-2 were, well, "difficult" ;-).
Sun-3's got easier.  Sun-4's boot boot out of the box! (ahh, you young
folks don't know! ;-) any way, 386bsd 0.1 was about like a sun-3 - 
you had to read the manual.  NetBSD 0.9 is a great improvement.]

I'm running NetBSD 0.9 on a 2nd IDE drive.  I'm using booteasy to boot
from the 2nd IDE.  This works great.  I'd like the boot tracks to
default to wd1, however (so I don't have to type "wd(1,a)/netbsd" each
time). 

I tried once to get the boot tracks to figure this out.  I'm about to
try again, but I wonder if anyone else has already solved this.

thanks.

-brad
--
Politically correct term for `corrupt': Ethically different, morally challenged

Brad Parker	FCR Software, Inc., Boston, Ma.	brad@fcr.com