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From: wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: 386BSD Q: 2 drives? small boot partition?
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.021649.1370@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 02:16:49 GMT
Firstly thanks & kudos to Bill & Lynne & their helpers for 0.1!!!
Onto the questions. Does 386BSD 0.1 support 2 IDE drives? What maj/min
numbers for wd1?
Secondly, I want to bring up a 10M boot (MS-DOS) compatible partition
on my 40M disk1, and have /usr & swap on my 80M disk2.
Is disklabel, newfs etc MS-DOS partiton-indifferent (or even friendly!)?
I already have a multi-partition boot program on the disk which I'd prefer
disklabel etc not to tromp on.
Finally, manuals (or pointer to) for disklabel, newfs etc which indicate how
to work with existing MS-DOS partitions would be very much appreciated.
Fixit unfortunately doesn't have them and the 386BSD archive here in
Australia disposed of 0.0.
Thanks very much in advance. I spent the weekend playing with the Tiny
and Fixit disks, have disklabels ready to go. I've also brought up and
recompiled Minix 1.{2|3|4|5} on a PC before if this helps indicate my
experience :-) Answers (and my disktabs & success) I will summarise to
the net.
Cheers!!
Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity
No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
`Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).'