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From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can't quite figure out how to manutally partition a drive
Date: 19 Apr 1993 02:38:46 -0400
Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science
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I'm trying to make a dataless configuration for 386BSD, but I'm not having
much luck.  I have a 120Mb drive, and I'd like to make 20Mb for the 386BSD
root (everything else NFS mounted), and the rest for DOS.  But for the life
of me, I can't figure out how to do it.  Everytime I try to use disklabel
from the Fix-it floppy, I end up totally trashing the hard drive and have
to low-level reformat it.  Can someone explain to me exactly how you manually
create a 386BSD parition that co-exists with DOS partitions?

--Ken