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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: DOS and 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct13.021942.10523@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <92286.101837K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:19:42 GMT Lines: 27 (K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET) wrote: : My machine is a 486-50 with 212MB Conner CP3204F (IDE) and 543MB Conner Probably the same IDE as mine. : CP3540 (SCSI-2), the latter of which is connected to an Adaptec 1542B. : : : : : : I have painstakingly followed Terry Lambert's advice about setting the : IDE drive to its "native" parameters and about putting 386BSD (ptntype A5) : *first* on the disk, DOS second. I do not need to do this. Just install DOS first and leave some for 386bsd at the last partition, then use nu to lavel the 386bsd partition a5. Linux archive has pdisk(?) or something, which may be used in lie of nu. If there is a crash, use ndd to restore the boot sector. : -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet