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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!apple!netcomsv!mork!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Booting partions under 386bsd Message-ID: <pmll=ba.hasty@netcom.com> Date: 19 Jun 92 07:26:47 GMT References: <1992Jun19.025848.19994@udel.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 18 In article <1992Jun19.025848.19994@udel.edu> gray@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Scott Gray) writes: >Ok, I've read all of the installation procedure documents that come >with 386bsd and I noticed the line (paraphrased) > > THIS WILL NOT CO-EXIST WITH DOS IN ANY WAY > >But, none-the-less, has anyone attempted installation on a seperate >partition? Am I misunderstanding this in any way? > There are various hacks floating around which address this problem. Release 0.1 is supposed to address this problem and should come out any day now. If you are impatient I can give you a dump on past postings which address this problem. Currenlty, I have a crude hack which allows me to to run dos or bsd. So far my dos partition has not been corrupted, so I am lucky. Cheers, Amancio