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From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Booting 386BSD from second hard drive
Message-ID: <1992Oct2.035826.863@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:58:26 GMT
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OK - here's the scenario. I want to run OS/2 and DOS on my new system,
which will have a 170MB hard drive. When finances allow I want to buy
a second hard drive and would like to install 386BSD on that. OS/2's
boot manager will allow you to boot from a partition on drive #2, so
the question is, will 386BSD do that? If not what is the minimum sized
partition which I would need to leave on drive #1 for 386BSD to boot
from?

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.