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From: witke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marius Witke)
Subject: Re: [386BSD]: installing on a 2nd HD
Message-ID: <1992Dec12.154459.743@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:44:59 GMT
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There were some contradictory postings about this topic in the last
days, so I should tell my experiences.
First, I do boot from 2nd drive, using the first drive for DOS and
the second one for 386bsd. I don't use SCSI drives, so I can only
speak about AT-bus drives.
Second, this is how I arranged my drive to do so:
0. I had 386bsd installed on my first drive, so it was much easier
to work on the second (my kernel supports two drives).
1. I used the 'pboot' bootselector -available from agate- to
be able to choose a partition from second drive.
2. I got the SCSI bootset by Julian Elischer, that enables you to
choose the drive, partition and kernel to boot from.
I changed the sources to make the second drive the default.
3. I disklabeled my 2nd drive with these patched bootset, and
created new filesystems.
4. I mounted the drive and moved the bsd system from the first to the
second drive (don't forget to adapt /etc/fstab ...).
5. After sync, unmount and reboot everything worked !
In the meantime I removed 386bsd from the first drive and had
no problems with it.
Ok, I hope this could help someone...
ciao,
Marius.
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