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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:11883 comp.unix.questions:33455 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!juphoff From: juphoff@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu (Jeff Uphoff) Subject: HELP! I Want to install 386bsd on D: drive and can't! Message-ID: <1993Apr22.234301.16801@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu> Keywords: 386bsd Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM Date: Thu, 22 Apr 93 23:43:01 GMT Lines: 21 I just got a copy of Tiny 386bsd via ftp and want to put it on my home machine (a Gateway 386DX/33). I have two hard drives, C: is 255 MB and D: is 122 MB. I cleaned off my D: drive in hopes of putting bsd on there, but the install program in Tiny demands I use the C: drive, because that is the active partition...and I can't make the partition on drive D: active because it is physically disk #2, and FDISK will only make partitions on drive number 1 active. I don't want to have to re-partition drive C: because it is crammed full (using DBLSPACE yet!), and flipping the jumpers around on the disks to change OS's would be a major pain...not to mention having to run BIOS setup every time I switched jumpers. My basic question is: can I put 386bsd on drive D:, without having to make it the active partition (since I can't)? If not....I guess I will have to re-partition C:, with parts for unix and dos to boot from when active, and then devote D: to whichever OS needs the room. I am really perplexed by this. E-mailed responses to this question would be unbelievably appreciated. -- Jeff Uphoff -- "Uppie" | juphoff@astro.phys.vt.edu | new .sig under construction... juphoff@zia.aoc.nrao.edu |