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From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN)
Subject: Trouble with sockets
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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