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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2231 comp.os.linux.misc:12429 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!not-for-mail From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 7 Apr 1994 00:18:53 -0500 Organization: University of Houston Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2o053t$j89@menudo.uh.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nm6tb$m6u@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <2nva4n$8t9@hermes.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu In article <2nva4n$8t9@hermes.unt.edu>, Bruce Jackson <jackson@ponder.csci.unt.edu> wrote: > >>After wasting lots of time in figuring out using trial-and-error method, >>I finally found a way how to install DOS/*BSD in one IDE drive : > >[long ordeal deleted] > >The way I did it was much easier. The only item you need is a >bootable DOS disk with typical utilities like fdisk, a partition >editor, and os-bs from FreeBSD (I've never found this on the NetBSD > .... > Go through the install script .... >After you have the base system installed, boot the DOS disk and use the >partition editor to make the DOS area back into a DOS partition and >make it active. Boot off of the hard disk and then run os-bs. In fact, the above is what the Install Notes described and a sort of common sense. However, if you boot DOS and try to look at the partition table using any partition editor including fdisk, there is only single partition, "unkown", which is *BSD's partition. I received several responses which saying that they had the same trouble and that they had to install in a whole drive. >I've used this method on both IDE and SCSI disks with no problem although >as everything else goes, your millege may vary. > >all excellent systems. *BSD is not _THAT_ hard to install although >Linux does have an edge in this department. Yes. When all failed, I tried a whole drive installation just to see wheter it really works. The installation was as easy as Linux this case. One problem was network configuration. In case NetBSD, the configure script could not set up the network correctly. So, I had to went through the rc scripts. (In case of Linux (Slackware), after I typed all necessary informations, such as network address, netmask, broadcast, ...etc. it went viola !).