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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alexander King Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS
Date: 31 May 1993 14:31:02 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
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Valo Roman (valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs) wrote:
: 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.
Hi. I've had the same problem. my disk's geom is 1001cyl, 15 track/cyl, 17
sec/track, 512 byte/sec. I had a 1 meg dos partition. When I Installed
NetBSD, I did the offset one meg (1024 of the 512 byte sectors), and it asked
to overwrite dos-partition table. I said ok and my dos partition vaporized.
I reinstalled with a 1 meg dos partition but I thought that there might be
more than one meeg in the partition, I counted the bytes used and free in the
partition, and came up with 1.02 meg. I reinstalled NetBSD witha 2 Meg Offset.
I figured that this was enough. Again it asked to overwrite the dos partition
table. I said NO this time. When it was supposed to reboot off the hard
drive, it booted off my dos partition, and the non-dos partition wasn'te even
in fdisk, so I couldn't make it active. I did it again (Take 3) I did 1 meg
dos, 2 meg offset, and ok to overwrite dos partition table. Once again, my
dos partition is gone. What happened???? Thanx..alex...
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