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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: info: Disk partitoner for *BSD
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References: <277la0$q4s@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 05:10:07 GMT
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In article <277la0$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