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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6810 ; Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:36:04 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!boulder!ucsu!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!galbrait From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) Subject: Trouble with sockets Message-ID: <1993Jan8.134333.25747@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:43:33 GMT Lines: 27 Another question: I like using 386BSD and Xfree86. Unfortunately, sometimes it is unavoidable that I must boot up DOS. So, I am using a nice partition switcher (os-bs.exe). The problem is that I have 2 identical 210 MB hard disks (IDE). At first, I just had one disk, and 386BSD was on the whole drive. This worked fine, and it still works fine if I switch the jumpers around on the hard drives when I want to switch operating systems. When I got the second disk, I put a DOS partition and a 386BSD partition on it. The partition switcher wants to be able to boot off of one disk only. (I tried pboot instead, but I couldn't get it to work right, and I didn't like the interface as much.) To set up the new partition on the new disk for booting, I installed the system with the dist.fs floppy. Then I copied over the recompiled kernel to support the second disk, then copied over what I thought were the essential files. (/etc, /bin, /usr/bin, /). Now, both partitions will boot. However, when I go to start up X in 386bsd, the server crashes with a message that it is unable to open the socket. X still works if I boot off of the old drive. Now what is the difference? All the files are identical. The disks are identical, with identical swap space. Is there some special trick to copying the root partition? I used cp -Rp command. Thanks for any advice, John Galbraith galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu