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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help! I cannot use os-bs on 1.7 Gig drive. Date: 11 Feb 1994 10:58:48 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2jfod8$akk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <klee.760727150@imagen> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: 1.7 Gig drive In article <klee.760727150@imagen>, Kanghoon Lee <klee@imagen.com> wrote: >I just bought 1.7 Gig Micropolis IDE drive, partitioned 520MB for DOS and rest >for NetBSD. I installed DOS, and NetBSD 0.9. When I boot, the NetBSD comes up. >When I had two operating systems on smaller disk(340MB), I did not have any >trouble switching the operating system using os-bs program. But when I install >it on this drive, it has trouble switching the operating system. This sounds like drive translation problems. Do *BSD and DOS use the same disk parameters (they need to be the same when you install it initially)? Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.