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From: peckham@drei.enet.dec.com (Alan D. Peckham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] Shared installation
Date: 2 Dec 1993 15:31:16 GMT
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I am maintaining several systems on a 486/50 served by a 2.3GB NFS file server.
I currently have:

	345MB disk #0
P  10MB	MS-DOS 6.2
P  10MB	DRDOS 6.0
P   1MB	OS/2 Boot loader
E  30MB	Linux PL14 w/NFS mounted /usr
E  30MB	(available)
E  50MB	OS/2 2.1
E 100MB	Windows NT
E  92MB	Windows

	130MB disk #1
	(backed up data disk)

  P=primary partition	E=extended logical drive

I have 386BSD with all patch kits and the mods to run diskless, so currently
it boots off floppy and therafter runs off the file server.

I was hoping that I could load FreeBSD onto the 30MB slot, with most of the
file system on the file server, but I don't see how to do this. As a back up,
can't the installation be fixed so that I can install it on my second disk
and then I can copy it to the first, bootable by the OS/2 boot loader?

Thanks,
Alan Peckham