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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine 
In-Reply-To: <653.807036888@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In article <653.807036888@palmer.demon.co.uk> you write:
>David (Greenman) wired down the disks on ftp.cdrom.com for this very
>reason. He mapped the disks with what could be called octal notation -
>sd0 to sd7 on the first controller, sd10 to sd17 on the second and
>sd20 to sd27 on the third. I'm sure you get the idea - with this
>scheme, you can see at a glance which controller the disk is on...

I have a question...

How would one do this on 1.1.5.1? It would help me greatly in migrating to
2.x if I could boot bt0:1:0 as sd0, using a boot manager on bt0:0:0 to
select bt0:1:0 (D:). I have a "whole disk" installation on my current disk
so I can't add a boot manager I don't think...