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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!wintermute.phys.psu.edu!news From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS. Date: 22 Apr 1993 15:45:17 -0400 Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1r6skd$bpv@leps5.phys.psu.edu> References: <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <1r5vqs$ah5@leps5.phys.psu.edu> <1r60gs$aii@leps5.phys.psu.edu> <1r6r8u$5np@network.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leps5.phys.psu.edu In article <1r6r8u$5np@network.ucsd.edu> brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones) writes: >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. Yeah, but that install program only lets you make a partition of 40Mb or greater. I only wanted a 25Mb parition, for various complicated reasons. BTW - what other utilities besides PFDISK let you create paritions with user-specified ID's? --Ken