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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail From: brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS. Date: 22 Apr 1993 12:22:06 -0700 Organization: Antarctic Support Associates Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1r6r8u$5np@network.ucsd.edu> References: <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <1r5vqs$ah5@leps5.phys.psu.edu> <1r60gs$aii@leps5.phys.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: network.ucsd.edu In article <1r60gs$aii@leps5.phys.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes: >In article <1r5vqs$ah5@leps5.phys.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes: >>I did manage to get one step farther; remembering that 386BSD wanted a parition >>ID of 165, I used pfdisk to make a parition with that ID number. _then_ when >>I installed, I didn't get that damn message from disklabel. Unfortunately, > >Anyway, I now have a working setup for NetBSD that's co-existing with DOS. >Maybe the NetBSD gang could provide a copy of pfdisk or another fdisk-like >utility? The FDISK that comes with MS-DOS isn't very suitable for playing >around with this sort of stuff. > If you don't have a copy of PFDISK, or something similiar for creating the partition with ID 165, you can just leave the partition created by the "tiny 386bsd" installation floppy, and then install with the NetBSD flippies over top of the initial 386bsd stuff. When you do this, you will also not receive the question that was left out of the installation instructions. Both systems are now happily co-existing on my machine. Brent