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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) Subject: Re: 386BSD + MS-DOS Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:41:08 GMT Message-ID: <Bvxooq.6oD@ibmpcug.co.uk> References: <1992Oct11.002954.29581@mccc.edu> Lines: 16 In article <1992Oct11.002954.29581@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes: >I have access to a lab full of 386 PCs running MS-DOS and a Novell >network. Would it be feasible to partition their HDs and install 386BSD? >Would that require reformatting and re-installing all the MS-DOS >software? Would 386BSD's networking work over Novell network hardware? The easiest thing is to have novel/dos on a boot floppy and 386 bsd on the hard disk. Unless you've bought nfs for novell, the only useful thing you'll be able to do from bsd to novell is ftp, which you can set up on a spare dos machine with either ka9q or ncsa telnet. (I prefer ka9q because ncsa telnet has a bug - all directories get weird names, eg system becomes .ystem - if there's a fixed ncsa someone please tell me) G --