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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> I think I have found a way for BL3 to look for /baslin on 
> other HD partitions (in addition to /dev/hda1).  It appears 
> that DrDOS puts the C: drive at hda3 -- so /dev/hda3 should 
> be in.  However, I seem to recall seeing DrDOS at /dev/hda4 
> -- could you DrDOS users please check your C: drives and tell 
> me where they are.


The following is from a computer formatted with DR-DOS and later modified 
a bit with PQ-Magic (used to add a second linux partition and resize 
existing partitions).

This is the computer where I deleted all of d: thinking it was the linux
partition.  We will not format any more drives with DR-DOS.

C:  Fat32 (boot, Win98) hda1
D:  Fat16  (DOS          hda3
BL2              hda2
Linux (unused)   hda4


Another computer partitioned with DR-DOS fdisk
C:  hda1
D:  hda2
linux swap hda4
linux  hda3

I think one computer got formatted by DR-DOS with extended partitions and
BL2 ended up in hda5.  We are avoiding extended partitions now.


> 
> I'd like to configure BL3 to look in half a dozen partitions 
> (in addition to /dev/hda1).  Which partitions do you guys 
> think would be most useful?  Suggestions please.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven