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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!glasgow!simonm From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow) Subject: Install on to second hard disk? Message-ID: <CEottB.330@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept. Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 15:31:59 GMT Lines: 20 Hi People, Ok, I've decided to junk Linux for a bit and give NetBSD a try. There's one factor that may cause me to change my mind, though: can I install NetBSD (or 386BSD, or FreeBSD) from scratch on to my 2nd hard disk? The FAQ implies that the answer to this question is `no', because you have to recompile a kernel that looks on the second drive for its root and swap. Is this true? Is there a way around it? Thanks for any pointers. Oh, by the way, I'll be using OS/2 bootmanager on the first disk to boot everything from. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk