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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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