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From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 2 drive system, installing 386BSD on drive 2?
Summary: Is it possible to have MSDOS on one drive, 386BSD on another?
Keywords: 386BSD, boot, disk
Message-ID: <1992Nov8.015256.8916@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:52:56 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond
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I have two IDE drives on my system. Presently drive 0 is dedicated
to MSDOS and drive 1 to Linux. As I am experimenting with Linux at
the moment, I have a Linux boot floppy which sets things up to use
drive 1 (yes, there are other ways to do it, let's not get into that
now). I can boot MSDOS in the usual fashion.

I'd like to try 386BSD using a similar setup. Is this possible? If
so, how? When I boot from the "tiny" floppy, it reports finding
drive 0 (my MSDOS drive), but not drive 1 (my Linux drive).

[Is there a 386BSD FAQ? If so, where is it?]

[p.s. I like Linux a lot, but have the time and inclination to try
386bsd. Don't read anything into this that isn't there.]

tia,
-- 
Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])