Re: Two hard drives

From: Frederick Bruckman (fredb_at_immanent.net)
Date: 10/06/04


Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:39:58 -0500

In article <pan.2004.10.06.09.47.26.700216@vfemail.net>,
        Lute Mullenix <lute@vfemail.net> writes:
> Can I use a two drive installation for netbsd on an old 68k Mac?

Do you mean to split root and /usr across two different drives?
The menu driven installer can probably do that, but only if the
partitions were made and newfs'd already. I don't think the
installer would be smart enough to handle all permutions, as, for
example, on a clean install, to initialize one disk and leave the
other alone.

You could always install a minimal system on one drive (kern +
base + etc), then run "pdisk" and "newfs", then "dump"/"restore"
to the other.

-- 
Frederick


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