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- From: rick@pubah.hq.af.mil (Rick J Weldon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD MSDOS partition recognition?
- Message-ID: <9207241821.AA15909@pubah.hq.af.mil>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:51:47 GMT
- Sender: 386bsd-gate@jadpc.cts.com
- Reply-To: rick@pubah.hq.af.mil (Rick J Weldon)
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- Reply-To: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler)
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- From: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler)
- To: 386bsd-gate@jadpc.cts.com
- Subject: 386BSD MSDOS partition recognition?
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- kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler) writes:
- >I repartitioned my 120 MB hard disk over the weekend to create a 60 MB DOS
- >and a 60 MB BSD partition, and then installed 0.1. The installation went
- >without a hitch, and the system booted fine. However, when I tried to do
- >a /usr/distbin/shutdown -todos to make the DOS partition active from within
- >386BSD, I got a 'Can't make dos bootable' error. Has anyone else seen this?0
- >Do I need to do something to make 386BSD recognize my DOS partition? Any
- >help would be appreciated.
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- >KZ
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- Kevin if you get any resonses to this I would like to know also.
- I installed manually using seperate partitions for / and /usr.
- I would like to know how to manually add a DOS partition that I can get
- to.
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- Thanks a bundle
- Rick Weldon I-NET Inc. (Pentagon, 7TH Com Group)
- E-mail: rick@hq.af.mil
- Phone: 703-697-4654
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