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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!blekul11!alijku11!k390670 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: DOS and 386BSD Supersedes: <92286.094751K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 10:18:37 CET From: <K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Message-ID: <92286.101837K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Lines: 46 My machine is a 486-50 with 212MB Conner CP3204F (IDE) and 543MB Conner CP3540 (SCSI-2), the latter of which is connected to an Adaptec 1542B. I have painstakingly followed Terry Lambert's advice about setting the IDE drive to its "native" parameters and about putting 386BSD (ptntype A5) *first* on the disk, DOS second. Besides that I lose all tracks beyond 1023 with this method, install still fails: >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (some info about super-block backups) >newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process >newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label >Could not format filesystem. Installation failed. Any suggestions are highly welcome. As the 386BSD installation on the *whole* IDE performs flawlessly, I think the best way to do it anyway is to dedicate the whole IDE to BSD, to enable BIOS emulation of the Adaptec (which I tried to avoid up till now), and to install DOS (and, by the way, OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT) on the SCSI.Besides not losing 50MB of the IDE, switching to and fro 386BSD becomes ridiculously simple: In the machine's setup, set drive C: to "user defined": 386BSD is run In the machine's setup, set drive C: to "not installed": DOS (or Win NT or OS/2 2.0) is run Any comments on that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregor 'Greg' Glawitsch k390670@alijku11.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at "Everybody should believe in something - I believe I should have another beer" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------