On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Mike Pumford wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Thomas Boroske wrote:
> 
> > In message <Pine.NEB.3.95.970128223015.519A-100000@black-star.demon.co.uk> you wrote:
> > 
> > > On 26 xxx -1 k3050e7@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is it possible to install riscBSD on a 1GB HD after a 512MB ADFS
> > > >partition? I havn4t got the new filecore (only RISC OS 3.5), and I don4t
> > > >want to boot from a floppy-disc.   
> > > 
> > > This should work but the ADFS (RISCOS) partition may have to be slightly
> > > smaller than 512MB so that bb_riscbsd can set up the disc for RiscBSD
> > > installation. I used an 850MB drive and a 3.2GB drive on RISCOS 3.5 where
> > > the ADFS partitions on both disks were below the 512 boudary and
> > > the RiscBSD partitions above the 512MB boundary without any problems. 
> > > 

  Is it not possible to put the RBSD partition first on the HD, and the 
Acorn one second?  

  Well, Obviously it *is* possible, but is is advisable?

Ale.