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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD 0.8 Date: 2 Aug 1993 18:55:58 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <23jnvu$ja@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <dhess.744088562@xenon.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdq.coe.montana.edu In article <dhess.744088562@xenon.stanford.edu>, Drew Hess <dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > >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. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu