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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing DOS on FreeBSD Drive Date: 9 Jun 1996 08:01:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4pe0cm$4s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p7lkn$6vs@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Jun8.045040.9320@cs.mun.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E amigus@cs.mun.ca (Adam Migus) wrote: > DOS Must exist on the first partition of the first disk, otherwise it won't > boot. That's not true. The only requirement is that the _entire_ DOS slice must be accessible by the BIOS, while it's sufficient for BSD that only the root partition (usually the first part of the BSD slice) resides in this area. If your entire disk is accessible to the BIOS, it's absolutely irrelevant which system resides where. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)