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Article #6045[386bsd] partitions
From: MR GE DOYLE
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:27
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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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!cc185.ru.ac.za!g88d4938 From: g88d4938@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR GE DOYLE) Subject: [386bsd] partitions Message-ID: <g88d4938.35.726827264@giraffe.ru.ac.za> Lines: 27 Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:27:44 GMT