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From: pauls@icecreambar.css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD]: installing on a 2nd HD
Date: 6 Dec 1992 21:21:11 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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 writes
| I had hoped this was goin to be easy but as per normal, nothing ever
| is.
| 
| I had a 486 with an 85Mb disk with BSD386 installed and running OK.
| The machine got commandeered and DOS got dumped on it.  I now have it
| back and have added a 2nd 62Mb drive.  The 62 has DOS on it and is C:
| I had hoped to load 386BSD on the 85 but the kernel on the install
| disk doesn't seem to see multiple drives.

I think the consensus at this point is that 386bsd needs to reside on the  
primary drive.

You should also take a look at the two-drive kernel, a binary of which is  
on most of the distribution sites in the ~386bsd-0.1/unofficial directory.

Paul