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From: hferrin@willamette.edu (Heather Ferrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: NetBSD Install
Message-ID: <C5yKws.GxF@willamette.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 93 22:53:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: willamet.C5yKws.GxF
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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I'm not sure this is the best place to put this, but until (if ever?)
NetBSD gets a news group...

In the install process, the question "overwriting disk with dos
partition table? (n)" come up right after I say that I truely do want to
install the system.

I've answered it both ways and gotten mixed results, everything from a
series of error messages regarding missing file systems to having to
have my BIOS re-format my drive because on boot I got "no bootable
partition" (which neither fdisk nor dos format would help with).

This doesn't appear in the documentation, so I'm pretty much stuck till
I can figure out what it wants.

Any help apreciated!
 - Heather Ferrin