> > Pardon what is almost certainly a tremendously obvious
> > question, but: Can NetBSD be installed on the second of two
> > IDE drives?  How does one then boot it?  I have been given a
> > fabulous Pentium system by my employer, who
>
> [...]
> There are several ways to do this.
> [...]

Yep.  One you didn't mention was the possibility of using the DOS
port of the boot blocks.  See filed problem report 1002 or

ftp://ftp.unit.no/pub/NetBSD/local-patches/boot.send-pr

There's even a binary boot.com and a PGP-signed md5 checksum file
in the same directory.

- H=E5vard