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From: spath@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James Spath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help on disk partitioning
Date: 12 Apr 1993 11:21:48 -0400
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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I have installed 386bsd v 0.1 on a 486 PC with a Maxtor 200MB hard drive.
I want to use half for MS-DOS (work duty calls) and half for 386BSD. After
following the install directions, I got Unix to boot, but it uses the entire
100MB "foreign" partition for "root". How do I partition the Unix half of
the drive into different filesystems (I think I need swap!) ? The Dr.
Dobbs artice from July 1992 discusses writing a "disktab" entry, but I
can't fathom when this is supposed to happen... On the standalone floppy,
there is no disktab file nor any editor to get it there. Once the system
is built (with extract) there is a disktab file in /etc, but I'm not
sure which entry or entries in it are valid or active...
/jes {spath@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu}