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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Re: Installing on second SCSI disk?
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 07:22:21 GMT
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Russell Street (russells@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:
: I am trying to install FreeBSD 1.1 onto my ``second'' SCSI disk
: (ID=1). Can I do this? If so, how so?
: Linux is on the SCSI disk #0.
Yes, you can do this. I did it (DOS is my sd0 disk.) The most
important thing to do is to recompile the kernel so that it will
locate the swap space on the sd1 device. look in
/sys/i386/conf/GENERICAH. Copy that file to another in the same dir
(usually named the same as the hostname) and then edit it. There's a
line in there which specifies which devices swapinfo will look on for
the swap space. The default is wd0 and sd0. Since your FreeBSD will
be on sd1, you need to change the sd0 to sd1.
There's also some work to be done so that the disklabel will jump to
sd1 on boot; not changing this will force you to type sd(1,a)/386bsd
at the boot prompt...
This is all from memory, but accurate I think. Email for more info.
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