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From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts)
Subject: Dual boot mode
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 22:49:42 GMT
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Hi,

I set up my FreeBSD system without making any room on my first hard drive
for DOS.  I really didn't need it.  I wish I did not now.

I have a second hard drive that is totally empty.  I would like to
devote some portion of it to FreeBSD and some to DOS.  Here is what
I would like:

Drive 1:  a.  FreeBSD system disk (bootable)
          b.  FreeBSD swap space
Drive 2:  a.  FreeBSD file system (not bootable)
          b.  FreeBSD swap space
          c.  DOS 6.2 file system (bootable)

In short, I would like 1 bootable partition on each drive, one FreeBSD,
the other DOS.

Can this be done?  How?  I have looked into 'booteasy' as a friend suggested.
I think this would work great -if- both bootable partitions were on drive 1.

fdisk (the version -I- have) will not allow you to mark a partition as
active if it is not on the first drive.

Any ideas?  If you have a version of a utility that does this, I will
need to know where to get it (or mail it to me if it is free).

pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu

			Thanks!


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