From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 11:46:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11372 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 11:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bellind.com ([206.101.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11363 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 11:46:56 -0700 (PDT) From: RGireyev@bellind.com Received: by firewall.bellind.com id <17029-3>; Mon, 5 May 1997 11:48:01 -0700 Message-Id: <97May5.114801pdt.17029-3@firewall.bellind.com> To: Subject: RE: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:51:58 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Considering how many people try to make this work and how often this comes to the list. Would this be a prime candidate for the FAQ? or maybe the handbook? Of course once someone figures out a solution for this problem. Who is the FAQ maintainer anyway? Or should I say Who gives a FAQ? :-) >---------- >From: Jordan K. Hubbard[SMTP:jkh@time.cdrom.com] >Sent: Sunday, May 04, 1997 2:35 AM >To: Josef Karthauser >Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org; john@o-farrell.com >Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. > >> I've noticed in the kernel config that there is a: >> kernel boot wd0 >> line, but my primary drive is sd0 so I'm confused. >> >> What's the obvious thing that I'm missing? Maybe Jordon could include >> some extra stuff in sysinstall to allow this to work on the install. >> I'm sure that lots of people out there want this functionality. > >Hmm. I was under the impression that it did! Some people have >successfully installed off of jazz drives (and I remember seeing some >patches to make this work specifically going into the tree). Either >that or my memory is totally shot. :) In any case, are you totally >sure of the jazz drive's configuration? Does it work under any other >OS as configured? > > Jordan >