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From: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman)
Subject: [NetBSD] installing with DOS
ReplyTo: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman)
Organization: Slovak Technical University, Computer Centre
Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 08:27:34 GMT
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Hi, all !
I have problem installing NetBSD on one partition of my fixed disk.
My disk geometry is
17 sect/track, 8 tracks/cyl, 512 bytes/sect, 642 cylinders.
First I create DOS 5 primary partition (10MB) using fdisk. There isn't any
chance to create nondos partition. Fdisk also didn't give me any usable
information about length of partition or offset in sectors. When I used
Norton disk editor, it gave me these results :
Partition 1: start at cyl 0 head 0 sect 1
end at cyl 150 head 7 sect 17
Partition 2 : none
This means, for the NetBSD partition there is 642151 (491) cylinders free,
which is 491*8*17 (66776) 512bytes sectors, it's
the length of the NetBSD partition, which I told to install program.
When I was asked about the offset of the NetBSD partition, I
gave it the value 20537 (151 cyls for dos, it's 151*8*17=20536 512bytes sectors).
Is this correct ?
Because when I finished the base installation, my dos partition gone away !!!
Running fdisk again didn't help, it told me that there isn't enough space to
create dos partition.
Any suggestions ?
PS: sorry if this is a FAQ.
Roman Valo Email: valo@cvt.stuba.cs
Slovak Technivcal University
Computer Centre
Bratislava
Slovak Republic