Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS partitioning help. Date: 9 Oct 1992 11:41:09 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1b3r4lINNq2f@Germany.EU.net> References: <Bvt7nr.BxD@acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <Bvt7nr.BxD@acsu.buffalo.edu>, jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes: > > I have checked through the FAQ and did not see this type of > thing covered there. I was hoping someone could outline the steps > required to get DOS 5.0 and 386BSD to co-exist on the same drive > without using the standard install procedure. The setup works fine > if you want to live with the partitioning scheme established by > install. I have not been able to manually disklabel a drive that > already has a DOS partition, disklabel tends to wipe out the partition info. .... and vice-versa, I daresay. I fdisk'd a disk with 5.0 fdisk, installed 386BSD -> fdisk gone. INstalled DOS 5.0 on top -> 386bsd fdisk partition gone :-( -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV