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- From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Subject: Re: how do I put 386bsd on drive 2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.135124.947@corax.udac.uu.se>
- Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
- References: <92252.033510MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:51:24 GMT
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- In article <92252.033510MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu>, Mark Solsman <MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- |> I have two esdi drives, I would like to make the first drive msdos, and
- |> the second drive 386bsd. Can I do this, and how? I am not sure, because
- |> 386bsd install only seems to look at drive one, and doesn't notice the big
- |> vacient sign on the partition table for drive two...
-
- There are two possibilites:
-
- * Open your PC and change cables and settings so the second disk
- is the first disk, boot from the tinyBSD disk and let install do
- it's stuff (or use the fixit disk and makeo a custom disklabel and
- install so you get a decently sized swap partition).
-
- * Get a kernel that supports two disks, strip it and replace the kernel
- on the fixit disk, boot from fixit, disklabel the second disk, mount
- it and custom install.
-
- Either way, you now have a DOS disk, and a 386BSD disk. The problem is
- that the PC ROM only allows you to boot from the first (DOS) disk, so to
- boot from the other disk you have to physically make it that disk the first
- one.
- This is not very practical (although I use that myself now, but that's
- because my stupid diskcontroller won't realize I have two disks on it 8-(.
- I bought a new one today, I hope that one works 8-) ).
-
- To have a workable system you have to have both systems on the first
- disk. Either have a small DOS partition + all BSD on the first, with
- the rest of your DOS stuff on the second disk, or all of DOS + a small
- (5-10MB depending on how you treat /tmp) BSD root partition + some swap
- for BSD on the first, with /usr and more swap for BSD on the second.
-
- In either case you need to handle the BSD installation yourself,
- in the first case to get a decent swap area, and in the second case
- to install /usr (and swap) on the second disk.
-
- Which to choose depends on the size of your disks, and how much space
- you need for the two systems. The main factor is how much DOS space
- you need, BSD (and you) will be happier the more diskspace it gets.
-
- --
-
- Goran
-
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- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se
- Astronomiska Observatoriet |
- Uppsala Universitet |
- S-751 20 SWEDEN |
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