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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)?
Message-ID: <CC73xF.8n0@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 04:46:27 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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I currently have a 386SX-20, 5MB RAM, 44MB IDE (Seagate ST157-A
-- 560 cyls, 6 heads, 26 syls), AMI BIOS, etc. I just bought a Connor
DiskStor 84MB IDE drive (physical is 2 heads, 1522 cyls, and 46
sectors) because my Seagate died on me (not the first time). However,
my Seagate came mysteriously back to life and I am thinking of trying
to 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD again. I would like to have a 20 MB DOS
partition on the Connor's (which will be the primary/master/C: -- I do
not and have never trusted this Seagate) with the rest of it and the
rest of the Seagate being one of these 386BSD's. I have had some
problems mixing NetBSD and DOS before and I am wondering if this will
work?
You may wonder why I want DOS on the Connor. If the Seagate goes
out again, than I only loose UNIX -- which is no big deal for me
because I only intend to look around, recompile kernels, play around
with device drivers (all the stuff people used to do before buying
source from AT&T got expensive). "real work" for me still has to be
under DOS because I need WordPerfect.
Also, which is the boot manager to use? Perhaps not a manager --
something simple like a program for DOS called bootunix.exe and a
program for UNIX called bootdos. A floppy I could insert that would
boot UNIX would be fine, too (I do not want to load the kernel from a
floppy). I would like it to boot DOS normally/no questions asked.
Thank you
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen