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Re: OS-BS vs. LILO, 3c509
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yoav@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 7 19:57:07 1995
From: yoav@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 00:57:00 GMT
To: ericding@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Okay.. here is what I know:
1) I've currently got DOS on my first hard drive, and want to put NetBSD on
my second drive. Is there a boot manager like LILO for Linux (such as
OS-BS??) that will allow me to manage both?
OS-BS will let you select between your DOS partition and your NetBSD partition
(I do that on my machine).
I'm not sure if the NetBSD partition can be on another drive, though I suspect it
can (I haven't done it). There is ample documentation about it in
/afs/sipb/project/netbsd/i386/utils
2) Is the 3c509 reliably supported by NetBSD?
Well, It officially is, though the following problems have been reported:
a) Sometimes it will decide the network isn't there. This can
be fixed by running a background process that does something funky. I
have a 3c509 (it's b btw), and haven't had this happen. Neither has
granola. I, howvere, have an interesting problem that if I do a clean
reboot, the card won't be recognized the next time around (I have to
instead push my RESET button.. though I suspect that may be my machine's
fault, as DOS seems to have done that too).
b) oops, I gave you b inthe above one... :-)
Anyway, I use both the things you seem to, and have had very few problems so far..
-- yoav
