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From: jenkins@oils (Jon Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Install to second disk
Date: 19 May 1994 07:14:34 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hello,
I have decided to try the FreeBSD release 1.1 however
I have two disks in my machine both wired to an IDE controller.
I would like to keep disk 0 as my DOS disk and have disk 1 as
my UNIX disk. By reading the install_notes with the release
this seemed to be possible however when I tried to install the
distribution it did not give me the option of which disk
to load the binaries, it insisted on loading them onto
disk 0. So I have a few questions if some kind person
could help.
1: Can I install FreeBSD Release 1.1 to a second disk (disk 1)
without having a partition on my primary disk (disk 0)?
2: How (please be explicit) ?
3: I have downloaded the easybt.exe program from the distribution
and it says that it can copy any file to the boot sector of
disk 0 and/or 1 but how then do you boot from disk 1 (or is
it just that you load the BSD boot to disk 0 and then it mounts
disk 1 onto /) ?
4: I seem to remember Linux solved this by booting from a floppy
and then mounting disk 1 on the / filesystem. Does BSD have
a similar scheme ?
Any help greatly appreciated
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