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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!usasoc.soc.mil!ted From: ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Mr. Ted Nolan) Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS. Message-ID: <1993Apr26.130728.28955@usasoc.soc.mil> Sender: news@usasoc.soc.mil Organization: SRI International References: <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 13:07:28 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes of: + + Several problems getting NetBSD to coexist with DOS on a Dell + Me too! Except it seems to be a little worse for me. My Dell has DOS 6, and my DOS install disk won't even let me boot at all after installing NetBSD. I have to boot my diagnostic disk (which is DOS 5) to recover. Fdisk reports only one (odd) partition, despite my setting up 2 partitions at the start (and with a program that actually does give the cylinder boundries, which (dos6) fdisk does not, contrary to the NetBsd doc) > >At the point where the disklabel happens, it said: > >"Overwriting disk with DOS partition table? (n):" > >This threw me as it's not in the install notes and I haven't a clue Me too. I interpret it as asking whether there is a DOS partition table on the disk, presumably so it can take some care not to kill it. So I said yes. Didn't work. (Neither did saying no). Partition table screwed up in both cases.. On my current attempt, I have gone back in and recreated the partition table after finishing the first 2 NetBsd diskettes (through copy kernel). I can now boot dos, and recognize a goot NetBsd area when booted from the NetBsd floppy, but NetBsd will not boot from the hard disk. If I ignore trying to get dos to work, NetBsd itself works great, and has a low pain install path, but ... Ted Nolan ted@usasoc.soc.mil