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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: How to use fixit to get DOS and 386BSD on same drive? Message-ID: <1992Oct14.020136.26650@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct13.094247.837@altair.selu.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:01:36 GMT Lines: 24 Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu (zmw@altair.selu.edu) wrote: : I'm having the same problem as described below in getting DOS to reside in : a 34MB partition and 386BSD v. 0.1 in an 80MB partition on my 120MB Conner I recommend strongly that you use only 32Mbyte for your DOS partition because mtools cannot work with more than that. : Peripherals 120MB drive. When I let the install program use the entire disk : everything installs and boots great, but when I make the partitions and : format DOS, then install BSD, my AMI 386 goes into a panic loop when I try You have to remove install first using ndd or fdisk on dos 5 with a special option that I forgot, /mdr(?) : to boot. I have retrieved and created the fixit diskette, but could someone : point me to some documentation or describe how I can use the fixit program : to place the disklabel at the proper place within the 80MB partition? Thanks! type disklabel, and a menu will come out. It will be better if your existing partition structure be told so that some analysis can be done.