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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!think.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!andrick From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie]) Subject: Re: Installing 386bsd Message-ID: <1992Oct6.162100.12545@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Oct5.160510.26443@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:21:00 GMT Lines: 57 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: : In article <Bvn4H4.5Fz@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> prkoch@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Peter Koch) writes: : > : >my technical datas : >------------------ : > : > 386 25MHz : > AMI-BIOS : > 8 MB RAM : > 1.2 MB and 1.44 MB floppys : > 205 MB Seagate AT-Bus disk : > - 33MB DOS 3.3 - System Partition : > - 70MB DOS 3.3 - Extended Partition : : The DOS partition should follow the 386BSD partition on the disk; the : 386BSD partition has to be first. : : The use of a 33Meg primary DOS partition is good; it means that the : "shutdown -todos" will work for you. : : You didn't say if you are using IDE; if you were, select drive type 45 German `AT-Bus' translates to IDE in English. : in the CMOS setup and enter in the actual number of heads/cylinders/etc.; : this may mean that you can't use all your drive, since DOS is dumb about : greater than 1024 cylinders. : : Alternately, you can use the whole disk for 386bsd, in install sufficiently : to rebuild asboot and disklabel, and move the 386BSD partition to later : on the disk. This will take a lot of work; installing 386BSD *and* DOS : on the same IDE drive is difficult. Is it? My partition tables make me believe that my DOS partition is the first on my disc and that 386BSD partitions are located after it. The DOS partition just happened to be where it is when I set up 386BSD by `install'. Do I face any major problems because of that? : : Terry Lambert : terry@icarus.weber.edu : terry_lambert@novell.com : --- : Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present : or previous employers. : -- : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me : Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ulf R. Andrick andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de FB Biologie - Tierphysiologie Universitaet Was du nicht selber weiszt, D-W 6750 Kaiserslautern das muszt du dir erklaeren (Tegtmeier)