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Re: more questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Feb 12 11:11:37 1995
To: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Feb 1995 14:58:42 EST."
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 11:11:21 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 1) what hack do I need to add to the ksrc10 sources to get the 3c509
> bug taken care of?
It's inf /mit/netbsd/dev/athena-install/kernels.obsolete/patch-3c509.
(We're now building from a different source tree, but that patch
should work fine.)
> 4) I tried using mount_msdos to mount my DOS drive, but it gives an
> error about there being no disk label. What do I need to do to get
> it to work?
From what I've seen on one of the NetBSD mailing lists, you would need
a NetBSD partition on that disk which points to the DOS partition.
John Kohl also suggested you might be able to make an in-core
disklabel at startup time; I'd have to get back to you on that.
> 5) Greg, you said that it may be possible after all to share swap
> drive between Windows and NetBSD. I'm assuming I can't have the
> swap drive on a separate drive from NetBSD, right? How do I do
> this?
Sigh. Having the swap partition on a separate disk would require some
kernel changes and would probably require you to have a small NetBSD
partition on the other disk, yes.
(Linux's philosophy of using the MBR partition for everything
certainly works better in this case.)
