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From: johnson@tigger.jvnc.net (Steven L. Johnson)
Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS on a ide drive?
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jrb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (James Binkley) writes:

>Could some kind soul please give me a blow-by-blow description
>again of how to make 386BSD and dos coexist on separate partitions
>on the same IDE drive? 

This must be a FAQ.  I too couldn't seem to coerce the install
to run properly on a 200M IDE when partitioned.  I tried leaving
empty partitions at the beginning or end of the disk and also
specifically id'ing the partition with type 165.  The install
seemed to recognize it and copy files to the IDE.  But when trying
to boot the hard disk it either went into a reboot loop with
a vm_fault of some type (screen clears very fast) or inability
to find the 386bsd kernel image.  I couldn't make sense out of
how to use diskpart, disklabel and or newfs to correct this.

I gave up and installed on the entire disk, which works just
fine.  On a side note downloading the bindist via slip went
very cleanly.

So is it the IDE, or my ignorance in how to get a label on the
disk, or something even more basic?

-Steve