Austin Brower wrote:
> 
> Hello Y'all,
>      After being successful in installing and operating NetBSD 1.2.1 on a 
> IIsi's external 80mb HD, we (My friend and I) would like to reinstall 
> NetBSD so the root and swap partitions are on the internal 40mb HD and 
> the usr partition is the external HD.
>      This is where I get confused.  Which distribution files are 
> installed on the root partition?  I know the kernel would go there, but 
> what about etc and base?  We don't mind deleting all of the info we had 
> stored on the machine.
>      The question directly relating to the one above would be:  How do I 
> make the Installer install files on certain partitions or disks?
> 
> Hopefully, with the swap and root partitions on the internal HD there 
> will be a miniscule speed increase.
> Thank you all in advance,

Please take a look at the latest INSTALL document.  I've recently updated
it, and it explains how to have separate root and /usr partitions.  Let me
know if it's useful.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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