On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> I've found sysinstall and its ilk to be extremely bad about being able to
> do _anything_ out of the ordinary.
> 
	If you want to install onto a single disk, sysinst makes it very
	simple. If you want more, you could always send PRs or suggest
	code :)

> Setting up a separate swap area is pretty easy but you may find it a bit
> touchy if you can't boot diskless. Allow me to explain.
> 
> If there is a server on the net that you can use to boot the VAX diskless
> into NetBSD (a Linux or *BSD box works great for this) then create an
> installation on that system (just untar the sets, make the devices, and
> edited the rc.conf file.) Then boot diskless. Now partition your disks
> either manually (which is what I typically do) or if you want interactively
> with the disklabel program. Run newfs on all the partions you've defined,
> then mount them up under some directory (the directory 'a' was used by lots
> of folks) in the order that they will be mounted. This will probably
> involve making the /var and /usr directories by hand to facilitate
> mounting. Extract the sets into this mount point, make the devices, edit
> rc.conf and then edit fstab to mount things in the right places. Voila'
> you're ready to go.

	I think it might be easier to run a standard sysinst install with
	zero or very small swap, then manually add some on the other disk
	after install :)


		David/absolute