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From: bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [A] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 17:49:48 GMT
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In article <CL97Fu.8rC@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Pitt Cheang <cheangk@eel.micro.umn.edu> wrote:
>Too bad I only have two hard drivers, DOS was accidently erased last
>week (could be intentionly, must be my daemon inside). How would people
>here suggest putting 3 OS on two 200M HD ??

Well, I dunno about the BSDs, butt LILO, the Linux Loader, is quite happy
having multiple bootable OSes on a disk. I'd probably set up my first hard
disk as three primary partitions for the three bootable OSes, and an extended
partition containing more partitions to let you flexibly reallocate space
from one OS to another. I'd wait on the second disk until I decided what
OSes I really wanted to work with.

I just set up a friend's old notebook (386SX-16 w/ 4M RAM, 120M HD) with
MS-DOS 6+Windows 3.1 and MCC-Interim Linux. Works like a champ.

-Bennett
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