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From: xie@egr.msu.edu (Xie Guochun)
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Subject: Re: Having 386BSD and DOS partition on my HD
Date: 20 Feb 1993 03:51:22 GMT
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In article <1luml2INNfnu@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alexander King Tang) writes:
>
>   I am going to install 386bsd on my 386 33 mhz computer.  Currently I have
>2 hard drives in it: one 130 IDE, and one 210 SCSI.  I was planning on having
>the IDE be the bsd partition, and the 210 be the DOS partition.  (The IDE is
>the primary drive.)  Does anyone have any info on what to look out for when I
>do this, and any other info would be greatly appreciated.
>--
>						...Alex...
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I have 2 IDE drives (primary: 210 meg, secondary: 130 meg). After
playing around, I ended up with the following setting:

Primary drive: first 20 meg goes to DOS, the rest goes to 386bsd.
Second drive: all goes to DOS.

This allows me to boot either from 386bsd or DOS without using
floppies. I use OS-BS135.

--Guochun Xie