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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Magic # patches and Seeing a DOS partition Date: 1 Oct 1993 09:41:57 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 23 Message-ID: <28hfk3$k7l@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <CE2szt.q5@luva.stgt.sub.org> <CE6GEt.1Ho@ucdavis.edu> <28ftj5$faf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <28ftj5$faf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <CE6GEt.1Ho@ucdavis.edu>, >Jason Gabler <ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >>but help woul dbe appreciated. Its all on /dev/rwd0d with FreeBSD on >>partition 3 and DOS ( BIG > 32M ) on partition 0. > >You have to create a BSD partition (a-h) which contains the DOS partition. >(but don't use c or d) > Also, don't use 'b' or the system will try to use it for a swap space. And 'a' is your root partition, so you probably can't use that. Stick with 'e' through 'h'. If you have any more questions, Nate has supplied a very good tutorial on this in the FAQ, which is available by anonymous FTP from hrd769.brooks.af.mil:/pub/FAQ (for at least another week and a half). -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX