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From: Christopher Dalton <cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 01:33:32 -0400
Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Please pardon me for having no clue:

1.  When I use fdisk to create a partition for NetBSD, what kind of
partition should I create?  Fdisk wont create a non-dos partition 
... ?

2.  Fdisk doesn't tell me the offset or precise size, how do I 
figure them out?  (It doesn't mention cylinders at all, only K.)

3.  I should make the partition of type 0xA5 with a partition 
editor; where can I find one (ftp)? 

4.  Why can't NetBSD use the same install procedure as 386BSD (which
didn't require a clue)?

Thanks much,
Chris