*BSD News Article 26850


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!newncar!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp
From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Newbie needs setup advice
Message-ID: <CKMI16.L9s@boulder.parcplace.com>
Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com
Organization: ParcPlace Boulder
References: <2if74a$jir@dogwood.cs.scarolina.edu> <RISNER.94Jan31203005@batman.lexmark.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:43:53 GMT
Lines: 17

In article <RISNER.94Jan31203005@batman.lexmark.com>
risner@lexmark.com (James Risner) writes: 
>Linux (the last time I installed it) could reside on the second disk.
>*BSD (the last time I installed it) could NOT reside on the second disk,
>but it's swap and any other extra partitions could be on disk2.

FreeBSD (and I suspect NetBSD as well) works well on a second disk.
Today I have two hard disks in my system.  The first one has Linux on
it (sd0) and the second one has FreeBSD on it (sd1).  I boot FreeBSD
with Lilo and it works fine for me.  The second disk has two
partitions on it.  One for FreeBSD (which further subdivides the
partition) and one for extra linux goodies (not bootable).

Warner
-- 
Warner Losh		imp@boulder.parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.