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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can I split FreeBSD over two physical drives
Date: 22 Jul 1994 19:35:49 +0930
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In article <arog.773999318@BIX.com>, arog on BIX (arog@BIX.com) wrote:
> mathezer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Stephen Mathezer) writes:
> >I would like to put my root partition, and maybe another small
> >partition on one drive, and the rest of FreeBSD my second drive.
> >Can this be done, and if so how?
> >BTW in this scenario, where would swap go?
> >-Steve
> Ok, I"ve just worked my way through this... and I'll proly
> post a more detailed explanation later... however to get you
> going, here is a quick.n.dirty hack.list for the job.
[ long-winded explanation of procedure elided ]
I think you're being needlessly complicated here.
The GENERICAH kernel contains drivers for multiple disks -- That's a good
start. In addition to that, the cpio floppy contains a sufficent number
of utilities to enable you to disklabel, partition, newfs and mount
filesystems from the second disk (I should know; I've done it often
enough! :-)
Thus, the easiest way to install FreeBSD on two disks is to go through
the installation procedure as-per-normal, then, after installing the cpio
floppy, disklabel disk 2, use mknod to create entries in /dev for the
partitions on the second disk, mount a filesystem from that disk onto
/usr, then continue the installation from there.
To expend any more effort than that on the task seems a bit extreme,
and a bit unnecessary. Life is simple; why make it complicated?
- mark
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