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From: laine@morningstar.com (Laine Stump)
Subject: Re: Booting on sd2: HELP!
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To: villey_n@freon.epita.fr (Nicolas Villey
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In article <3pf8tu$n8d@boson.epita.fr>,
   villey_n@freon.epita.fr (Nicolas Villey) wrote:
>
>	Last night, I installed NetBSD-1.0 on my third SCSI disk (sd2).
>	No problem during the entire installation process, but when I
>	boot, there is no way I can get to NetBSD: my system keeps
>	booting on my first SCSI disk (DOS installed). There's no boot
>	loader to give a chance to boot NetBSD.

I believe it was booteasy that we used to set up a loader that would allow you 
to select between disks at boot time. Look in 
oak.oakland.edu:/simtel/msdos/bootutil for a whole slew of this kind of utility.
(A note of caution: whichever one of the ultilities it was that we used, you 
should only install it on the 1st drive - installing it on the 2nd (NetBSD) 
drive trashed everything).

>P.S: I was just wondering where the `Extract' and `Set_tmp_dir' used
>during the installation process come from: I did not find them in
>/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin or / (the default path components...)
>Thanks a lot in advance.

Look in /.instutils and /.commonutils.

Laine