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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can the various 386bsd's share a disk (Q)
Date: 7 Sep 1993 23:55:58 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Summary: Can I share code between different shades of 386BSD?
Keywords: Unix 386BSD Minix Linux

I've just bought a 345MB hard disk for my 386,
and am thinking of installing one or more of
Linux, 386BSD, NetBSD, etc.

At present I have 4 partitions on my 80MB disk:
a DOS partition
a 16-bit Minix (PC-Minix) partition
a 32-bit Minix (386-Minix) partition
an /src partition

I can share the /src files between 16- and 32-bit Minix.

Can I do something similar, say with Minix and 386BSD,
or Minix and Linux?
Are the file systems compatible?
(I couldn't find an answer to this in the various FAQ's I looked at.)

I hadn't realised a civil war had broken out in the 386BSD world.
Seems sad, but there you are.



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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland