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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!hookup!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!bach.seattleu.edu!bach.seattleu.edu!not-for-mail From: valko@bach.seattleu.edu (Jack Valko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: bsd / dos on two drives? Date: 30 Mar 1994 23:07:24 -0800 Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA Lines: 30 Sender: valko@seattleu.edu Message-ID: <2ndsrc$e0s@bach.seattleu.edu> References: <2n7v39$6jh@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bach.seattleu.edu The problem is you need a 386bsd partition on the second drive. Here's how I did it: 1) Installed and formatted BOTH disks to dos. Moved dos to D: 2) Trash the dos virus from C: and install *BSD. 3) tricky part ... run *BSD fdisk, and define a partion on your second drive as follows: SYSID: 165 Start at: head 0, cyl 0, track 2 End at: head 0, cyl 0, track 30. DOS writes the MBR on track 1, but leaves a space before the actual data starts that is big enough for the disk label. 4) define your dos drive in /etc/disktab. Check the man pages. 5) maybe you should reboot here 6) mount your dos partition: mount -i pcfs /dos 7) rejoice. I am doing this from memory. It didnt work the first time, I had to mess with it. Word of warning: BACKITUP_FIRST!!!! Jack