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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!dcv From: dcv@netcom.com (Dimitri Vlahakis) Subject: Installing NetBSD to 3rd Hard Drive Message-ID: <dcvCF6pyE.6B6@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 07:25:25 GMT Lines: 18 I'm installing NetBSD 0.9 to the third hard drive on my system. (or I'ld like to anyway). Currently I have two ide drives, and a third scsi drive. I'm using OS/2's Boot Manager to manage operating systems on the drives. It can recognize and boot OS' only from the first two hd's. I have a 50 meg partition on the 2nd IDE which is empty and on which I would be happy to install NetBSD, but the install apparently only allows me to install on the first IDE drive. However, if I install on the first SCSI drive, I can not boot off of it, effectively terminating the install at the point where I'm supposed to boot off the hard drive. Is there a way to boot off the floppy and continue the installation without booting off the hard drive (and subsequently using that boot floppy to boot BSD)? Or can I install BSD to the second IDE drive? Or perhaps somebody knows a way to load an OS off the third hd on a system? Thanks for the help... Dimitri