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From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD Bug: Setting empty DOS part'n to A5 stops 0.1 boot
Date: 21 Jul 1992 16:36:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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In article <1992Jul21.001444.7765@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes:
>I wrote in yesterday asking about getting a 10M 386BSD (A5) partition to
>co-exist with 2 other DOS partitions. Obviously, the install on the Tiny
>disk is a no-go, so I decided to do it manually.
>...

I'm sorry. You need a 40MB partition, as it states in the install notes.
(The binary alone is 30MB, swap is 5MB). Of course install won't help you.

Bill.