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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!ericb From: ericb@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Furry Logic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Booting partions under 386bsd Message-ID: <5761@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 92 03:09:09 GMT References: <1992Jun19.025848.19994@udel.edu> <pmll=ba.hasty@netcom.com> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 31 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >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. Is there a designated partition type (number) here? I'd like to add it to a partitioning program (for hackers, that is) that I'm writing. I hope, that yet not another operating system is being multiplexed on a DOS partition type to add to the confusion (so far, there's at least 8 unrelated operating systems occupying partition types 0x01 through 0x06). Try something like say, 0x44 (just for the spirit of the upcoming future). -e.b. ============================================================================== Eric Berggren | "Life is a Turing Test; Computer Science/Eng. | We're all automatons!" ericb@eecs.cs.pdx.edu | - (click, whir, buzz, chirp)