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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.ryerson.ca!hopper.acs.ryerson.ca!jverne From: jverne@acs.ryerson.ca (John Verne - CNED/F94) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing DOS on FreeBSD Drive Date: 10 Jun 1996 16:38:39 GMT Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4phj2f$8gr@ns2.ryerson.ca> References: <4p7lkn$6vs@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Jun8.045040.9320@cs.mun.ca> <4pe0cm$4s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopper.acs.ryerson.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) said: *SNIP* : That's not true. The only requirement is that the _entire_ DOS slice : must be accessible by the BIOS, while it's sufficient for BSD that : only the root partition (usually the first part of the BSD slice) : resides in this area. : If your entire disk is accessible to the BIOS, it's absolutely : irrelevant which system resides where. Does this include so-called extended bios'? I have a drive that uses a software driver to fool with the geometry, but I understand that newer motherboards don't need this. Is BSDfree and DOS a happy couple if, for example, I had a 1.2 gig harddrive and wanted to put DOS in a, say, 200M partition (slice?)? I'm planning on making BSDfree my 'boot' OS, but would like to keep PC-DOS around as a security blanket. -- Jon D. Verne <jverne@acs.ryerson.ca>