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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!dhess From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess) Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD 0.8 Message-ID: <dhess.744327521@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA References: <dhess.744088562@xenon.stanford.edu> <23jnvu$ja@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: 2 Aug 93 21:38:41 GMT Lines: 22 osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >> >>I'm having a hell of a time installing NetBSD 0.8 on my PC. I'm trying to >>install it on a Western Digital AC2340 hard drive (1010 cyl, 12 heads, >>55 sec/track, 512-byte sectors (? -- pretty sure but not positive)). I >>want to keep my MS-DOS partition on the drive, but each time I try to install >>NetBSD I trash this partition. I tried reading the 386BSD/NetBSD FAQ on >>this subject, but it doesn't really address my questions. >You could be getting bit by the translation problem. You want to turn >it off if possible. How can I do this, and what are the side effects? Thanks -dwh- dhess@cs.stanford.edu