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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
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References: <CE2szt.q5@luva.stgt.sub.org> <CE6GEt.1Ho@ucdavis.edu> <28ftj5$faf@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <28ftj5$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).

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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX