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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can NetBSD/Sparc and 4.4Lite coexist?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 19:43:03 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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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.

You yould need BSD4.4 (-Heavy) -- and a USL UNIX source license --
to make what you want to do work.

                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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