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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!rutgers!uwvax!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: DOS and 386BSD (and NT and OS2) Message-ID: <Bw7tHz.EI@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 16 Oct 92 13:01:09 GMT References: <92288.123610K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <1992Oct15.025722.15943@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 28 In article <1992Oct15.025722.15943@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >I was hoping to avoid the level of detail required to install two OS's on an >IDE drive by shooting at the two most likely suspects... sorry this didn't >work for you. > >386BSD isn't going to be able to recognize your drive as both translated and >untranslated. If you don't turn off translation, you will have to use the >entire disk for 386BSD, or you will have to do some math to find a location >where the cylinder boundries are the same translated and untranslated, and >start the 386bsd partition table there. I really don't understand any of this. I have installed a primary dos partition with the rest 386bsd on 4 completely different IDE systems with NO problems. 2 were laptops and 2 were desktop systems. They used IDE drivers ranging from a pair of 40 meg Seagates to Maxtor 213 meg units to a Fuji 425 meg units. The laptops have unknown 80 meg drives. I did no translation mods (no way that I can see how to do it anyway). Just partitioned the drives with ~30 meg dos, and left the other partition for 386bsd to fill up. I can't see where this translation/no-translation means anything. There are too many other completely different UNIX's out there running fast and happy on IDE drives. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us