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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Install on to second hard disk? References: <CEottB.330@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> Message-ID: <CEqHwL.61n@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 13:09:57 GMT Lines: 18 In article <CEottB.330@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow) writes: >Ok, I've decided to junk Linux for a bit and give NetBSD a try. >There's one factor that may cause me to change my mind, though: can I >install NetBSD (or 386BSD, or FreeBSD) from scratch on to my 2nd hard >disk? The FAQ implies that the answer to this question is `no', >because you have to recompile a kernel that looks on the second drive >for its root and swap. Is this true? Is there a way around it? The NetBSD boot program prompts for a file to boot from. If you tell it to boot from the second disk (wd(1,a)/netbsd) it should get root and swap from there despite wd0 being compiled in. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough