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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!batcomputer!cornell!cchase
- From: cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase)
- Subject: [386BSD] partitioning and other things
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.221431.12825@cs.cornell.edu>
- Summary: reading msdos partition, is QMAGIC defined
- Keywords: partition, magic numbers
- Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:14:31 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- I have just installed 386bsd on my computer and have a few questions:
- (Before I begin, I should mention that this is being posted by a friend of
- mine so all personal aspersions should be directed at me (mark) instead of
- craig)
-
- On to the questions...
-
- 1) reading msdos partitions: In the FAQ it mentions a method for reading a
- msdos partition by altering the devices array in devices.c. I cannot
- find this file, should I create it? If I do, will this method work,
- and how do I get at the files. Is there a better way?
-
- 2) I am currently running the os/2 2.0 boot manager which allows me to select
- which operating system to boot. Problem, it will not boot 386bsd for
- me. Is there another boot manager available that will work with
- dos, os/2 and 386bsd?
-
- 3) I am trying to compile an SML compiler (if you never heard of SML, you
- probably will never need it). Anyway, the sources require a magic
- number QMAGIC. In /usr/include/sys/exec.h there is defined: OMAGIC,
- NMAGIC and ZMAGIC. Has anyone ever heard of QMAGIC?
-
- 4) Does pstat exist for 386bsd? Any other way to find out available vm?
-
- 5) From 386bsd.bugs: bug BOOT003, should that read 32MB partition instead of
- 30kb?
-
- Answers to any of the above questions would be greatly appreciated. I
- apolgize if any of these have already been hashed over on the net, I am net
- I am new to this group, and my unix knowledge ain't great.
-
- Cheers,
- mark.
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- Mark Linderman | Cornell University
- linder@ee.cornell.edu | Department of Electrical Engineering
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