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- From: storner@diku.dk (Henrik St|rner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Setting up bootable DOS pertition by hand
- Keywords: DOS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.130213.11601@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:02:13 GMT
- References: <4500@hq.hq.af.mil>
- Sender: storner@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 27
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- One line of attack that has worked for me is the following:
-
- 1) Clear all partitions off the harddisk.
-
- 2) Using FDISK from MS-DOS, create a "Primary DOS" partition that will
- be Your *only* DOS partition.
-
- 3) Create - using MS-DOS FDISK again - a "Secondary DOS" partition that
- will be used for BSD.
-
- 4) Using Norton's DISKEDIT or something similar, alter the byte indicating
- the partition type from 06 (Secondary/Extended DOS) to A5 (386BSD).
- (for the real hackers, edit absolute sector 0, changing the byte at
- offset 450/466/482/498 for partition 1/2/3/4).
-
- 5) The 386BSD 'install' program now recognizes the second partition as
- the 386BSD partition, and installs 386BSD there.
-
- 6) Use a DOS-based boot-partition switcher to replace the Master Boot
- record so You can select which partition to boot from as part of the
- booting proces. Several of these are avaiable at ftp archives such as
- wuarchive.wustl.edu / oak.oakland.edu / wsmr-simtel20-army.mil . If
- You cannot find one, I can e-mail or post one.
- --
- Henrik Storner (storner@diku.dk / storner@olivetti.dk)
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
-