urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (03/11/90)
In comp.unix.aux, article <1990Mar9.063910.2536@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes: < In article <235@inpnms.UUCP> logan@inpnms.UUCP (Jim Logan) writes: < < > Can I boot from this < >external 300MB drive? Can I leave the Finder on my 40MB internal < >drive so I can use it sometimes? < Not only can you leave a MacOS (Finder) partition on your 40M internal, < you *have* to have a MacOS partition on at least one of your drives. You can always boot from floppy disk. Some people _have_ to do hat anyway -- on my system, sash won't run. Too many INITs I suppose. < [...] Sash has options for specifying a Unix boot device different < than the one for MacOS. I haven't tried that sort of a setup, but I'd be < real surprised if it didn't work. No problem. Things get hairier if you want to put the swap partition onto another disk. # pname -a -c X -d 0 -s 2 "Swap" # swap partition on SCSI disk w/ ID X (The name "Swap" may be different for your system, do # dp /dev/dsk/cXd0s31 ? P ? q to find out...) # man kconfig # :-) # kconfig -n /unix <<END SWAPDEV=0x1C02 # that's /dev/dsk/c4d0s2 SWAPCNT=xxxx # whatever END # kconfig /newunix the same way, _or_ do a # kconfig -a -n /unix >/my.config and run # kconfig -n /unix </my.config after every autoconfig. -- Matthias Urlichs