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From: michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan)
Subject: [NetBSD] Possible to install on IDE and use IDE+SCSI?
Message-ID: <1993Sep27.143518.4653@resonex.com>
Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 14:35:18 GMT
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My 486/33 system currently has three disks, as follows:

        120 MB IDE
        240 MB SCSI (ID 0)
        877 MB SCSI (ID 1)

Currently, I have DOS on the IDE drive, and a test installation of
NetBSD 0.9 on the 240 MB SCSI.  (I only loaded minimal setup, to
verify basic functionality on my system.)

What I *want* to do is something like the following:

        120 MB IDE
            DOS Partition (small, enough for C:\ and C:\DOS)
            NetBSD Partition (basic installation, with /, /usr & swap)

        240 MB SCSI
            DOS Partition (entire disk)

        877 MB SCSI
            NetBSD Partition (entire disk, subdivided into two or
                              more Un*x partitions)

Before I start to throw all my bytes up in the air, does anybody
know any reason why the above *wouldn't* work?

After the installation of NetBSD, I will also probably want to move
/usr to the 877 MB disk, but from what I recall of the installation I
did, this is going to require manual wholesale copying after the
installation completes.  That's no big deal, so that's what I plan to
do.  (If the installation procedure *could* handle two disks directly,
though, that would be much better! :-)

adTHANKSvance

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