Re: Formatting a second drive

[tron%lyssa.owl.de@localhost (Matthias Scheler)]

In article <199801202204.QAA19884%fargo.smartnap.com@localhost>,
        mparson%smartnap.com@localhost writes:
> /dev/sd1a would be the first partition on the second drive, nothing dictates
> that the first partition of a drive has to be a 'root' (/) partition.

But NetBSD might detect is as root partition a try to boot from it. At
least older version of NetBSD behaved that way.

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/