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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!samuel!ejr From: ejr@ee.cornell.edu (Eric Rossin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] Installation help needed Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 10 Jul 1994 13:23:24 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University Lines: 31 Sender: er14@cornell.edu (Verified) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2vosoc$g25@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0424.cit.cornell.edu Keywords: FreeBSD, Ultrastore 34F Currently, I have the following setup: 2 IDE drives (1 dos, 1 NetBSD-0.9) + Ultrastore 34F SCSI controller. IDE controller is on IRQ 14 and the 34F is IRQ 15. I would like to install FreeBSD-1.1.5.1R (eventually replacing NetBSD). However, I depend on NetBSD (a lot) so my plan was to get a SCSI drive, install 1.1.5.1R on it, layer on all the stuff I use and then retire NetBSD (which has been tremendous!). The question then is how to do this! kcopy_bt.flp expects the 34F on IRQ 14 (I assume it thinks it is the primary controller). I suppose I could disable the IDE controller, switch the 34F to 14, then install. This would be a pain since I would like to go back and forth for a while (I will be installing FreeBSD in my non-existant "free" time). Also, even if I did this, how would I boot from sd0 (can the NetBSD-0.9 loader boot FreeBSD?). A second thought, which is probably better in the long run, would be to re-partition the dos drive and do a minimal FreeBSD install behind dos. The question then is, what is the minimum I need to do to boot FreeBSD, prepare the scsi disk, then extract most stuff onto the scsi. Ideally, the scsi disk would have everthing needed to run (including root) with a copy of root on the dos disk for booting (that way I could boot from sd0 if something happened to wd0). Anyway, I think (hope) this gets the gist of what I would like to do across, but I am open to sugestions (particularly if I missed something obvious). posts or e-mails are fine. -eric