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From: storner@diku.dk (Henrik St|rner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd-0.1 and DOS co-existance
Message-ID: <1992Aug7.213432.7223@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 7 Aug 92 21:34:32 GMT
References: <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com>
Sender: storner@ask.diku.dk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
Lines: 16
gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com writes:
>Has anyone successfully installed 386bsd-0.1 on a DOS system in which
>the disk is an IDE drive using a translation geometry (i.e. not the
>native number of cyls., etc.) in the BIOS?
I did this succesfully on my ST1144 drive. I wanted to have BSD *and* DOS
(just to keep my word-processor), so I used DOS's FDISK to set up 2 par-
titions: One DOS ("primary DOS") and another for BSD, created as an "exten-
ded DOS" partition. After that, Norton was used to alter the label of the par-
tition from extended DOS to BSD (from 0x05 to 0xA5). BSD's install happily
recognized the partition, and installed without any problems.
--
Henrik Storner (storner@olivetti.dk / storner@diku.dk)
Tech. Support
Olivetti Denmark.