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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help! I cannot use os-bs on 1.7 Gig drive.
Date: 11 Feb 1994 10:58:48 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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Keywords: 1.7 Gig drive

In article <klee.760727150@imagen>, Kanghoon Lee <klee@imagen.com> wrote:
>I just bought 1.7 Gig Micropolis IDE drive, partitioned  520MB for DOS and rest
>for NetBSD.  I installed DOS, and NetBSD 0.9.  When I boot, the NetBSD comes up.
>When I had two operating systems on smaller disk(340MB), I did not have any
>trouble switching the operating system using os-bs program.  But when I install
>it on this drive, it has trouble switching the operating system.


This sounds like drive translation problems.

Do *BSD and DOS use the same disk parameters (they need to be the same when
you install it initially)?



Nate
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