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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!noc.arc.nasa.gov!calabres From: calabres@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Angelo D. Calabrese) Subject: Re: NetBSD co-exist with DOS? Message-ID: <1993May6.090828.25077@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Science Internet Network References: <match.19.736464917@civil.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 09:08:28 GMT Lines: 37 In article <match.19.736464917@civil.utah.edu>, match@civil.utah.edu (Marvin Match) writes: |> The Hardware: |> 386sx-20 |> AMI bios |> aha1542b |> ST1480N |> VGA |> NE2000 |> 4 Megs mem. |> |> The problem: |> Made a 110-Meg dos partition, leaving 300-Meg for NetBSD. |> Loaded DOS fine. Loaded NetBSD fine. NetBSD boots fine. Can't find DOS!! |> |> The question: |> Whence Dos? |> When I boot DOS from a floppy, fdisk finds only one non-DOS partition |> of 24-Megs on this 410-Meg drive. OS-BS only finds one 24-meg non-DOS |> partition. fdisk /mbr is no help. pfdisk is no help. |> |> I've gone through this again and again. I've tried creating the partitions |> manually with pfdisk. I've tried installing 386-bsd and then overwriting it. |> I've tried low-level formatting the entire disk. |> |> I'm convinced that you simply "can't get there from here". |> |> Somebody want to prove me wrong? |> |> Marvin Match |> match@sky.civil.utah.edu I am having the same problem. I have a 486DX-33, AMI bios, aha1742, LXT535S, SVGA with 16Megs of Mem. Thanks, Angelo