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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!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: info: Disk partitoner for *BSD Message-ID: <almCDFL0x.LFr@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <277la0$q4s@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 05:10:07 GMT Lines: 11 In article <277la0$q4s@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: > Some people have the need to set up a DOS partition with their > BSD-d-j partition. For NetBSD (and possibly FreeBSD), you > need to set this DOS partition to type 0xa5. To do THIS, > you need a partition editor that is capable of this, ie. > Not FDISK.EXE This is not necessary with the new install disks for FreeBSD, which transparently install alongside DOS and other OSes. The disks can be used to install NetBSD as well with some additition steps. -AM