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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!wmu-coyote!gray From: gray@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Curtis Gray) Subject: We need a collective... Message-ID: <1992Nov25.090447.2950@sol.cs.wmich.edu> Summary: We need a collective since it is obvious that 388BSD and DOS don't get Keywords: 386bsd DOS coexist hard harddrive drive second Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept. Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 09:04:47 GMT Lines: 13 It is quite obvious to me that, on way to many cases, 386BSD and DOS cannot coexist on the same drive. This is frustrating as there are many of us who have spent countless hours backing up our large harddrives (which previously had DOS allocated to the entire drive) only to end up with a 200 meg unusable partition. If there is some fix, or even some way to circumvent the install program and do manually what install was supposed to do originally, please drop a friendly line. The problem is that, if you have DOS in the first partition on your drive, 386bsd somehow loses the disk label. I am not familar with how to make another disklabel, but it seems to work fine if the entire drive is dedicated to bsd. I will compile all information I receive on the subject and, if it turns out to be something that all of us can use (not just my particular setup) I will post all of that information here for all to use. thanx, anyone! Curt