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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!course1!abrown 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 Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ria9b$8u2@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <3rhrfn$6tt@decaxp.harvard.edu> <3ri5c7$133@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: course1.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | * 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?" | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+