Re: Running NetBSD from an external USB drive

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Malcolm Herbert wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:51:32PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> |       Had quite good experience doing this for the last few days
> |       after the fan on my Thinkpad T60p choked.
> |
> |       Had to adjust fstab and cgd.conf to handle the wd0 -> sd0 change,
> |       and add a small rc.d script to automatically adjust xorg for the
> |       graphics chipset and wpa_supplicant for the wireless one if I
> |       wanted to move it between machines, but overall... not too bad.
>
> I tend to set up my single-disk hosts with a RaidFRAME broken mirror as
> the entries in /etc/fstab reference /dev/raid0x no matter where it is
> mounted from ...
>
> As a bonus, if I want to make it more resilient I just add the second
> disk ...

        Thats not a bad trick - I'll have to do that next time I
        install (or play games shuffling my existing filesystems 64
        blocks down the disk.... hmm.... :) Thanks

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