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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!flyer!easix!bigcomm!ado From: ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) Subject: installing 386bsd and dos on IDE-drive >1024 cyl ? Organization: adosoft Date: 24 Aug 1992 17:37:22 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug24.173722.11362@bigcomm.gun.de> Lines: 17 Hi, I have the same IDE-Drive Translation Mode problems that were described here very often. I could install 386bsd however, when I installed it on the whole disk, even in translation mode. But I still need a dos-partition. I could setup the real drive geometry for my ST1239A, which is 1272 x 9 x 36, and hope I could install 386bsd in a partition then. But, what will happen with DOS (5.0) ? As far as I know, it only supports 1024 cylinders. Must I waste the last 248 cylinders ? As far as I know, even the bios does not support more than 1024 cylinders. Or should I install DOS within the first 1024 cylinders and 386bsd in the rest ? Do you think it is possible to also install SCO-Unix in a third boot partition and swith all OS e.g. by a boot-switch program like os-bs ? Thanks for helping ?