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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: paul@triton.demon.co.uk (Paul Medcalf) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!demon!triton.demon.co.uk!paul Subject: Re: NetBSD - Installation Distribution: world References: <1993Jun13.045617.29399@actrix.gen.nz> Organization: Derepark Associates Reply-To: Paul@triton.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 23 Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 08:29:12 +0000 Message-ID: <739960152snz@triton.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <1993Jun13.045617.29399@actrix.gen.nz> chris@actrix.gen.nz writes: >I've tried installing NetBSD-0.8 but am having a couple of problems. >I'm trying to have a DOS partition and a NetBSD partition. > > >I've tried either and can't seem to get them to work. NetBSD >installs ok but I can no longer boot DOS. >It just comes up with the NetBSD boot procedre. Chris, maybe too obvious, but after you installed Netbsd, did you boot with a dos floppy with fdisk on ? You need to do that to use fdisk to set the dos partition back to active, or else it will always boot Netbsd. Your partitions are probably Ok, just prepare a dos boot floppy and fdisk to change partitions. The other option is to install a boot switcher that ]will ask you at boot time which partition to boot. There are a couple of PD ones around although the press they get seems variable.... Cheers, Paul Medcalf