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From: Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com>
Subject: [NetBSD] how to use 386bsd, to format for NetBSD and dos
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 23:27:20 GMT
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Have you tried to install NetBSD next to a dos partition only to find out
that no matter what you do, NetBSD always thrashes your dos partition?
My solution, which seems to have worked so far is:
1) format the partition using 386bsd (which is very kind to dos
partitions)
2) mount the 386bsd partition using one of the bsd installation sets
and remove all the files on that partition.
3) modify NetBSD's disk 1 "install" file .
(hack out all the disk formating stuff)
then run as usual.
I'm sure there's a "correct" way to fix this problem, but when you're not
a Unix Guru you do whatever works.