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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!news.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!bootes.sds.no!toreh From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) Subject: Re: Booting 386BSD on 1st harddisk but files on other Message-ID: <1992Oct21.192451.25808@ulrik.uio.no> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.68.77.217 Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway References: <9210211753.AA21821@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 19:24:51 GMT Lines: 37 In article <9210211753.AA21821@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe) writes: >(I don't think my memo made it through yesterday so I shall repost it) > >I have two hard drives, on with DOS and the other just for 386bsd. >One the first I have 2 DOS partitions, and have left 7 Megs free for >a small 386bsd partition just so I could have it set to the active >partition. I then wanted to have the rest of the files on the second >hard drive. > I am not a Unix wizard and am rather stuck here. The install program >on the dist.fs will not work as it says I only have 7 megs and it wants >40. Could some one tell me what I need to do (and the commands I would >need to issue) THANKS!!! > =Dan 1) Swap your drives so you can install 386bsd directly on your second drive. 2) Install 386bsd on that drive. 3) Swap back your drives. 4) Use Norton Utilities to create a partition on your first drive and to change the partition type to A5. 5) Get hold of Julians wdboot/bootwd or sdboot/bootsd stuff. 6) Construct a disklabel entry by hand. Use the one from your second drive as an example, get the necessary numbers for your first drive with Norton Utilities. 7) Install boot stuff with disklabel: disklabel -R -r wd0 disk.label wdboot bootwd where disk.label is your constructed label. 8) Enjoy!! PS: Thinking about it, perform the steps in the order: 4 1 2 6 5 7 3 -- tore