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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!summer
From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: Advice needed: installing 386bsd & DOS on a NEW PC
Message-ID: <9307418.11725@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 08:48:23 GMT
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Well, I'm about to take the plunge -- I have selected a 486DX notebook
computer, on which I intend to run DOS and 386bsd (mainly the latter, of
course!) The hardware is as absolutely standard as I could find, as I
bore in mind possible difficulties with installation when I was shopping.
Anyway, I'll have 250M HD, and 16M RAM. What I have in mind is to have
a 50Meg DOS partition, about 32Meg swap (is this overkill?) and use the
rest as 386bsd filesystem(s). I have a few questions, and if anyone could
advise me I would be most grateful...
- Should I parition my remaining disc space further (e.g. /, /usr, ...)
and if so, how much should I allocate each partition?
- Should I create *all* the partitions before installing DOS, or can I
create just two (50Meg and 250Meg) and create other partitions later?
Will doing this disrupt my DOS partition? (It may be a couple of weeks
before I have time to start work on 386bsd).
- I have some info already on how to set up the machine to boot either
DOS or 386bsd, but if anybody has a particular favorite I'd be keen to
hear about it... (the program I already know about is os-bs, and I'd
appreciate ANY comments!)
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Mark (hoping one day to able to *give* advice as well as ask for it!)
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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