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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NETBSD-partitions
Message-ID: <29ccqk$9au@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Date: 11 Oct 1993 19:40:04 GMT
References: <potsgl.1.750358232@saturn.wwc.edu>
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Keywords: DOS-partitions
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In article <potsgl.1.750358232@saturn.wwc.edu>,
GLENDON WILLI POTSCHKA <potsgl@saturn.wwc.edu> wrote:
>I am trying to intall both a DOS and NETBSD operating system on my hard 
>drive.  In the install notes for installing NETBSD 09 it says to set the 
>partition type to 0xA5 with a partition editior.  Does anyone know where I 
>can get a partition editor to do that?

telnet archie.closest.to.you (I use archie.internic.net)
login: archie
passwd: none

> prog pfdisk

(that's the partition editor's name)

This will tell you to find such a thing---Here is the output from my session.

						Marc 'em.



Host ccu.umanitoba.ca    (130.179.16.8)
Last updated 05:45 30 Jul 1993

    Location: /SLS/dos_utils
      FILE    -rw-r--r--   23630 bytes  00:00  1 May 1992  pfdisktc.zip


Host sunsite.unc.edu    (152.2.22.81)
Last updated 06:15  7 Oct 1993

    Location: /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management
      FILE    -rwxr-xr-x   65825 bytes  00:00  6 Sep 1992  pfdisk.tar.Z

    Location: /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/.cap
      FILE    -rw-r--r--      51 bytes  13:27  1 Jul 1993  pfdisk.tar.Z


Host ftp.engr.ucf.edu    (132.170.200.67)
Last updated 06:29  4 Oct 1993

    Location: /pub/linux-mirrors/tsx11/INSTALL/partition-programs
      FILE    -rw-rw-r--   65825 bytes  00:00 25 Apr 1992  pfdisk.tar.Z


Host alf.uib.no    (129.177.30.3)
Last updated 05:57  3 Oct 1993

    Location: /pub/Linux/tools
      FILE    -rwxr-xr-x   65825 bytes  01:00  6 Mar 1993  pfdisk.tar.Z


Host cair.kaist.ac.kr    (143.248.11.170)
Last updated 05:45 30 Aug 1993

    Location: /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/.cap
      FILE    -r--r--r--      51 bytes  17:27  1 Jul 1993  pfdisk.tar.Z


Host ftp.germany.eu.net    (192.76.144.75)
Last updated 06:30 17 Aug 1993

    Location: /comp/i386/Linux/Utilities/Disk-management
      FILE    -rw-rw-r--   65825 bytes  13:26 24 Mar 1993  pfdisk.tar.Z

    Location: /comp/i386/Linux/Utilities/Misc
      FILE    -rw-r--r--   65825 bytes  01:00 27 Mar 1992  pfdisk.tar.Z

archie>

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Marc Wandschneider					    Seattle, WA
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