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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5278 ; Wed, 23 Dec 92 05:01:27 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!cchase From: cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) Subject: [386BSD] partitioning and other things Message-ID: <1992Dec20.221431.12825@cs.cornell.edu> Summary: reading msdos partition, is QMAGIC defined Keywords: partition, magic numbers Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:14:31 GMT Lines: 38 I have just installed 386bsd on my computer and have a few questions: (Before I begin, I should mention that this is being posted by a friend of mine so all personal aspersions should be directed at me (mark) instead of craig) On to the questions... 1) reading msdos partitions: In the FAQ it mentions a method for reading a msdos partition by altering the devices array in devices.c. I cannot find this file, should I create it? If I do, will this method work, and how do I get at the files. Is there a better way? 2) I am currently running the os/2 2.0 boot manager which allows me to select which operating system to boot. Problem, it will not boot 386bsd for me. Is there another boot manager available that will work with dos, os/2 and 386bsd? 3) I am trying to compile an SML compiler (if you never heard of SML, you probably will never need it). Anyway, the sources require a magic number QMAGIC. In /usr/include/sys/exec.h there is defined: OMAGIC, NMAGIC and ZMAGIC. Has anyone ever heard of QMAGIC? 4) Does pstat exist for 386bsd? Any other way to find out available vm? 5) From 386bsd.bugs: bug BOOT003, should that read 32MB partition instead of 30kb? Answers to any of the above questions would be greatly appreciated. I apolgize if any of these have already been hashed over on the net, I am net I am new to this group, and my unix knowledge ain't great. Cheers, mark. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Linderman | Cornell University linder@ee.cornell.edu | Department of Electrical Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------