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Subject: Re: How to add a 2nd disk
To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 04:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
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> 1. boot from install floppy.
> 2. fdisk, disklabel the new disk and define one partition as root (/) disk
> (and one for /usr if you have 2 partitions
> 3. commit and define custom install and install for example only the
> /usr/games to the new disk
> 4. boot
> 5. edit fstab
> 6. mount -a
> 7. delete everything from the new disk

> And you will have a new empty installed disk.

Sure, this works.  However, what if the new disk happens to be the
5th disk (the floppy kernel only supports sd1-sd4) and the installer
doesn't want to temporarily remove one of the disks?

This could be done in 2.0 - and it's gotta be possible in 2.0.5, it just
does not appear to be documented very well.