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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: [386BSD]: installing on a 2nd HD Message-ID: <1992Dec7.050015.19764@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Dec6.201114.9120@massey.ac.nz> <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 05:00:15 GMT Lines: 22 In article <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@umich.edu writes: > 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. > I haven't tried it, but I don't think 386BSD needs to be on the primary drive at all. It just needs a kernel and boot blocks that support multiple drives. -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>