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From: eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Help installing DOS and 386BSD on same drive
Message-ID: <916@felix.Sublink.Org>
Date: 3 Nov 92 18:51:55 GMT
References: <1992Oct19.031059.25442@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> <67885@stanton.UUCP>
Organization: Soft*Star s.r.l, Torino, Italy
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In article <67885@stanton.UUCP> donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steven P. Donegan) writes:
>
>With all the trouble people are having getting BSD and DOS to co-exist I
>thought a success story was in order :-)

Well I must say I was even luckier!
I'm using a 40Mhz 386 motherboard (AMD processor)
	    IDE controller + Western Digital 200MB drive
	    ET4000 SVGA
	    double serial + parallel IO board
all this stuff no-name made in Taiwan. The only known brand board is
my SMC Elite 8003 Ethernet board.

I had a 50MB DOS 5.0 partition on the disk. I booted from the floppy
configured the hard disk and after 5 minutes I was installing bindist,
srcdist and etcdist from my SparcStation (and jumping with joy!)
Now I'm using the 0.1.40 kernel available on agate and have compiled
X11R5 and OSF/Motif without problems in just about 150MB.

	
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