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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: problems coexisting with DOS on same disk Date: 27 Mar 1993 21:04:35 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 39 Message-ID: <1p34k3INN1hk@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1993Mar26.173047.21747@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil Keywords: DOS partition In article <1993Mar26.173047.21747@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes: >A couple of days ago I posted an article regarding the installation >of DOS wiping out my installation of 386bsd on the same disk. Well, >I've been hit again. > >I copied the /var tree to a /var partition >(wd0d) and likewise for /usr (wd0e). I created an /etc/fstab to mount >/, /usr, /var and swap on wd0b. I'm certainly no expert, but isn't wd0d the partition that defines the entire disk? As in, it ignores whatever is in the label and just grabs the WHOLE DISK? As in, starts with your DOS stuff and snarfs from there... I have never heard of anyone having a working system where they used the wd0d partition for ANYTHING except the entire disk drive. BTW, wd0c is normally the partition definition for the entire 386bsd partition. It should start in the same place your wd0a partition does. I would change all references from wd0d to wd0e and wd0e to wd0f, or something like that. > >What is happening in the installation of DOS and 386bsd which causes the >other systems partition information to be corrupted? > >How can I now install DOS without screwing my 386bsd installation? > Try the wd0d -> wd0(Something greater than d) thing first. See if that fixes it. Of course, you might end up reinstalling if OS/2 eats your bsd partition again (Nazi software strikes again!). Of course, I guess it would only be getting even for your /var partition eating the DOS partition :-). -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX