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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: [386BSD]: installing on a 2nd HD
Message-ID: <1992Dec7.050015.19764@netcom.com>
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References: <1992Dec6.201114.9120@massey.ac.nz> <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 05:00:15 GMT
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In article <1ftqs7INNqrr@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@umich.edu writes:
> writes
>| I had hoped this was goin to be easy but as per normal, nothing ever
>| is.
>| 
>| I had a 486 with an 85Mb disk with BSD386 installed and running OK.
>| The machine got commandeered and DOS got dumped on it.  I now have it
>| back and have added a 2nd 62Mb drive.  The 62 has DOS on it and is C:
>| I had hoped to load 386BSD on the 85 but the kernel on the install
>| disk doesn't seem to see multiple drives.
>
>I think the consensus at this point is that 386bsd needs to reside on the  
>primary drive.
>
>You should also take a look at the two-drive kernel, a binary of which is  
>on most of the distribution sites in the ~386bsd-0.1/unofficial directory.
>

I haven't tried it, but I don't think 386BSD needs to be on the primary
drive at all.  It just needs a kernel and boot blocks that support
multiple drives.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>