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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: [386bsd] can you boot from C: (wd0a) but use as0a as / (root)
Message-ID: <david.714907986@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:33:06 GMT
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I want to have a partition on wd0a (C:) which contains boot code
and a copy of 386bsd (the kernel).

I want it to be configured to switch to as0a for mounting '/' on.

Can it be done?

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David Le Blanc                         :
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CSIRO Division of Geomechanics,	       :  and a freight train.' the Alien
P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149	       : in Alien^3.