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From: israel@dvinci.USask.Ca (Israel Oznovich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: how to label a partition for 386BSD?
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Date: 11 Aug 92 00:28:11 GMT
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Hi to all,
With only modest knowledge of DOS and Unix I am trying to
install 386BSD on a PC (486/33 with SCSI AHA1542B disk cont.)
I understand that I need to disklabel the 2nd partition
(1st partition belongs to DOS), but don't know how.
Without this install doesn't recognize the disk, right?
I just read someone using Norton Utilities to alter the
label of the partition to 0xA5; please elaborate.
Any other way, say "disklabel -r ..." from fixit ?
Sorry for the extremely novice question,
and thanks for the help -
Israel Oznovich
ps. Would a simple DOS "format d: /s" do?