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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:7883 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:36114 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!nadia!ncc1701.stgt.sub.org!ncc1701!space From: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: bsd386 & msdos in 1 micro Date: 16 Nov 92 08:59:26 GMT Organization: United Federation of Planets Lines: 21 Message-ID: <SPACE.92Nov16105926@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org> References: <br.pct.26.721364010@RLG.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov10.201703.9929@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: ncc1701.stgt.sub.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov's message of Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:17:03 GMT >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:17:03 GMT, tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) said: > In article <br.pct.26.721364010@RLG.Stanford.EDU> br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C Tam) writes: >> I try to configure a 386/486 with IDE drive for: MSDOS, Window 3.1, OS/2, >>BSD386. > A key question here is what you mean by "BSD386". It is common to > confuse BSD386 (a.k.a. BSDI, a.k.a. AT&T legal's practice target) > with 386bsd (a.k.a. Jolitz Unix). The first (BSD386) costs $1K, is in > beta release, and can't share a disk with any other operating system. > If that's what you've got, you lose - at least until the first general > release, which is supposed to be able to share a disk with DOS. There is a solution, but only if you have one hard disk reserved for BSD/386. Use CMOS setup to configure/unconfigure the boot disk containing DOS. When it's configured, the PC boots DOS, otherwise BSD/386. -- Lars Soltau bang: <insert ridiculously long path> BIX: -- no bucks -- smart: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org Will kein Gott auf Erden sein, sind wir selber Goetter.