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[386bsd] partitions

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From: MR GE DOYLE
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:27
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Hi all
 (I apologize if the following have been asked before, but I am a bit new to
 this - no excuse, but its the best I can come up with.)

 I've got a 150MB SCSI drive and have installed DOS on 50MB and BSD on 100MB.

 I fdisk'ed the primary and extended DOS partitions. BSD recognized the 100MB
 that was left and was installed on that. When I edited the disklabel there 
 was only 3 partitions, 'a', 'b' and 'c' with 'a' starting from cylinder 50, 
 DOS  taking 0-49.

 I installed DOS 5.0 and BOOTEASY. So far everything works ok.

 1) What I want to know is whether I had to make a 'd' partition, indicating 
    the whole disk?
    If I need a 'd' partition can I still change the disklabel?

 2) Will I have any problems later on with BSD overwriting the DOS partition
    (I recall some mail a while back about BSD starting from cylinder 0 
     overwriting DOS).
    Is it possible to change the order of the partitions so that BSD it put
    first?

Any feedback on these will be appreciated.

Thanx
  Greg
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:27:44 GMT