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From: brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS.
Date: 23 Apr 1993 14:54:37 -0700
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In article <1993Apr23.025247.17483@zip.eecs.umich.edu> khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) writes:
>I was lucky I already had a DOS partition created by fdisk, another
>partition created by tinyBSD, and I could get the size/offset and disk
>geometry from 386BSD before loading NetBSD.
>
>The rest of the NetBSD setup process is great.

I agree thoroughly with the last comment.  After I figured out the
problems with installing NetBSD on its own partition, and noticed I
still had a few hairs left on my head, what ended up on the computer was
a really slick version of 386BSD.  Many thanks to everyone who put this
together.

Brent