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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!storner From: storner@diku.dk (Henrik St|rner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Setting up bootable DOS pertition by hand Keywords: DOS Message-ID: <1992Jul30.130213.11601@odin.diku.dk> Date: 30 Jul 92 13:02:13 GMT References: <4500@hq.hq.af.mil> Sender: storner@ask.diku.dk Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 27 One line of attack that has worked for me is the following: 1) Clear all partitions off the harddisk. 2) Using FDISK from MS-DOS, create a "Primary DOS" partition that will be Your *only* DOS partition. 3) Create - using MS-DOS FDISK again - a "Secondary DOS" partition that will be used for BSD. 4) Using Norton's DISKEDIT or something similar, alter the byte indicating the partition type from 06 (Secondary/Extended DOS) to A5 (386BSD). (for the real hackers, edit absolute sector 0, changing the byte at offset 450/466/482/498 for partition 1/2/3/4). 5) The 386BSD 'install' program now recognizes the second partition as the 386BSD partition, and installs 386BSD there. 6) Use a DOS-based boot-partition switcher to replace the Master Boot record so You can select which partition to boot from as part of the booting proces. Several of these are avaiable at ftp archives such as wuarchive.wustl.edu / oak.oakland.edu / wsmr-simtel20-army.mil . If You cannot find one, I can e-mail or post one. -- Henrik Storner (storner@diku.dk / storner@olivetti.dk) Dept. of Computer Science Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark