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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: 386BSD: DOS ans BSD on the same Disk / disklabel destroys my dos part. Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 Summary: disklabel destroys my DOS partitions, why ? How to avoid this Message-ID: <1993May30.103526.1946@knobel.GUN.de> Keywords: dos 386bsd coexistance disklabel Date: Sun, 30 May 93 10:35:26 GMT Lines: 47 Hello ! I'm in big trouble. I have two DOS partitions on my SCSI DIsk (Maxtor 8760-S and aha1542b) and have a ~470 Mb bsd partition. Since I want to use X11 I want to enlarge my default swap space to 32 Mb. I read the faq about how to increase swap space. But when I perform these steps then the disklabel command destroys the information about my dos partitions on disk. If I do it the other way around ... formatting hard disk, first create BSD partition and after that creating dos partitions, it is impossible to do so, since the disklabel command seems to write dos incompatible partition data to the harddisk. There isn't any space free to create the two dos partitions although I left the space for it with a well tuned /etc/disktab entry for my disk. I used only the newest utilities to perform these steps. I build my own set of installation floppies. 1) One with a brand new kernel for boot (I used a small 386bsd 0.1 pk 0.2.3) kernel. 2) One with a filesystem only to have the necessary space for the programs to perform these steps accordingly. I would be very glad to have a well installed 386bsd which has real filesystems which begin and end on cylinder boundaries and with an increased swap space of 32 Mb. Where is the source of W. Jolitz install program, so that someone or I can perform the task to rewrite it. To make it possible to do better partitioning as stated above. BTW: Same experiences with NetBSD 0.8. These install routines destroy the DOS partitioning entries, too. I think it would be very important, that somebody who has the experiences to do so ... would write a utility that offers me/us those features, that are currently missing in each of the BSD products (386bsd, 386BSD patched, NetBSD). Please, who could do that - in my opineon - important stuff ?! Andreas -- ---- Andreas Klemm ------- /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim