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From: abrown@course1.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can NetBSD/Sparc and 4.4Lite coexist?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 21:06:51 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: abrown@fas.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) wrote:
: ]
: ] Is it possible to get NetBSD/Sparc and the Sparc version of 4.4BSD-Lite
: ] to coexist on one (Sparc 1 or 2) machine? I'd like to be able to boot 
: ] back and forth between the two OS's. Would this require 2 hard drives?

: BSD4.4-Lite is not bootable.

?? Well, I have a Sparc that is running 4.4BSD...perhaps it is the heavy 
version, but I was told it was Lite. uname says "4.4BSD". So can I get 
4.4BSD-Heavy and NetBSD to coexist?

Thanks.

--Aaron

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| * Aaron B. Brown             * |   "The way out is through the door.   |
| * Harvard University '96/7   * |        How can it be that so few      |
| * abrown@nucleus.harvard.edu * |            people use it?"            |
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