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From: pdac@quantime.co.uk (Peter Da'Costa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: shutdown (The other one) source
Keywords: shutdown
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Date: 23 Sep 92 18:03:54 GMT
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 Yup, works for me! By having a small primary DOS partition and an
extended partition, I can use the '/usr/distbin/shutdown -todos'
command to get to dos and 'fdisk' to get back to BSD. I have a
190MB IDE drive and have about 100MB for 386BSD and 90MB for DOS.

						...... Peter Da'Costa
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