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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and BSD/OS filessystems on IDE disks
Date: 6 Oct 1995 11:09:08 GMT
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In article <44skvf$fa1@ia.mks.com>, Andy Toy <andy@mks.com> wrote:
>I have a PC with two internal IDE disks with BSD/OS filesystems on it, one
>removable IDE disk with BSD/OS 2.0.1 and one removable IDE disk with
>FreeBSD 2.0.5.  I can mount filesystems from the two internal disks when
>I boot BSD/OS, but I cannot mount those filesystems when I boot FreeBSD.
>Is it possible to make these BSD/OS filesystems available to both BSD/OS
>and FreeBSD depending on which removable disk the PC boots from?
ok, so what devices are you using for this..?

I don't have a BSD/OS machine handy
Does anyone know if they subdivide the Fdisk parts with a disklabel,
or whether they went the linux route and just use extended parts to do this?

>-- 
>Andy Toy, andy@mks.com, Computing Services, Mortice Kern Systems, Inc.
>--The MKS Toolkit, don't leave $HOME without it.