On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Saverio Perugini wrote:

> Can NetBSD 1.4.2 run on two HDDs?

yes.

> I am installing NetBSD 1.4.2 via ftp on a Sun SparcStation 10.
> The system has two SCSI HDDs (sd0 and sd1).
> 
> sd0 has 258 MB and sd1 has 520 MB
> 
> I am using the installation floppy from
> /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/sparc/installation/bootfs/syboot-142.fs.gz
> 
> What is the difference between syboot-142.fs.gz and boot-142.fs.gz in
> that directory?

boot-142.fs.gz gives you the old shell script based installation.
syboot-142.fs.gz gives you the newer 'sysinst' based installation.  The
final installed system is the same, but the user interface during install
is different.


> "On which disk do you want to install NetBSD? [sd0]:"
> 
> I want to answer this question with both drives, however the tool
> only lets me enter one or the other.

this is a known problem and being worked on.


-Dan