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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>
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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?

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