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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!balboa.eng.uci.edu!swallace From: swallace@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Steven Wallace) Subject: Re: Looking for Disk Partition Editor Nntp-Posting-Host: balboa.eng.uci.edu Message-ID: <2CD4B1A7.11375@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 21 Date: 1 Nov 93 06:50:15 GMT References: <pct.11.752121239@leo.stanford.edu> In article <pct.11.752121239@leo.stanford.edu>, Peter C. Tam <pct@LEO.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > In 386bsd/NetBSD installation, it was mentioned that if you want to have >DOS partition coexisting with the Unix FileSystem, you have to edit the >type of Unix partition to a5. > > I have located 2 partition editors in dskutl in SimTel20, but both of them >are very short sighted & will not edit type to any other values then DOS/DOS >extended partition. > > I have also located a dskedit program that will binary edit the disk >by head & cylendar & sector, but I don't know the location of the type field >in the partition entry that I want to change to a5. > > So it all comes to this FAQ: Where can I find a PD partition editor that >will do the job?? Thank for any INFO! Try Disk Manager. Run it manually with dm /m and then you can then create a 386bsd parition with partition ID of 165. Or, if you have UNIX running, you can use FreeBSD's fdisk to set the parition ID.