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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.

When you're all done, you'll be able to select which partition to boot
from at the NetBSD boot prompt:  The one where it counts down from 5.
Tell it to boot, for example, from wd0e.

All of this begs the question of why you want to do this.  But it
should be possible.

Chris

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