On the other hand, if one can boot far enough into a disk, one could split
a large enough disk into two 'fdisk' partitions and make two complete and
separate installations. Alternately, one could split it into three using
the first two for NetBSD installations and the third for user files.

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:28:44PM +0200, Martin Ammermueller wrote:
> > The subject says it all. Is that possible?
> > sysinst selects always the first partition, regardless
> > of the currently active partition.
>
> This should be possible, but you'll have to do a lot of the
> installation manually.  You'll probably have to make a single NetBSD
> slice in fdisk, and then use disklabel to create an e (or f, g, or h)
> partition as your alternate root.  Then use installboot(8) to make it
> bootable, and copy all the appropriate files over from the a
> partition.

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