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- From: g88d4938@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR GE DOYLE)
- Subject: [386bsd] partitions
- Message-ID: <g88d4938.35.726827264@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
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- Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:27:44 GMT
-
- 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
-