I have a multiboot, multi HD (PATA/SATA and External USB) system with WinXP, Kanotix64 and FC3. I would like to look at a BSD distro (as opposed to Debian and Redhat) and NetBSD was recomended.

My HD population looks liek this:

IDE - Seagate 80gb
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1 = 80gb WinXP NTFS

SATA - Western Digital 80Gb
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 = 40gb NTFS
/dev/sda2 = 1 gb linux swap
/dev/sda3 = 10gb Kanotix64 reiserfs
/dev/sda4 = 10 gb FC3
/dev/sda-1 = 16gb free unformatted .. would like to put NetBSD here

USB Western Digital - 80gb external
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 = 80gb NTFS external USB HD for backups

I started the NetBSD install and it recognized my HDs, but it recognized them as WD1, WD2 and SD1 so I was not sure which one to pick for the install.

I want to be able to maintain my current multiboot setup usign GRUB. Can any BSD or NetBSD experts out there give me insight as to which NetBSD HD install choice I should make ??

Thanks

Paul

Moved: This thread is more suitable in *BSD, and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

NetBSD has a different drive naming nomenclature than Linux. The WD drives are your ATA drives and the SD is a SCSI drive. I'm not sure if NetBSD treats SATA as ATA or SCSI, but I'm guessing ATA. BTW, this should've gone in the BSD forum, so a mod will probably move it there.