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From: psampat@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Pragnesh Sampat)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NETBSD,DOS,and Harddisk partition
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Date: 16 Sep 93 04:17:33 GMT
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Aric B. Lambert (alambert@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) wrote:
: I am installing NETBSD.9 and am trying to partition my harddrive, so
: that I can keep my DOS partition and at the same time have the NETBSD
: partition. Every time I try to partition it like the istallation guide
: recommends, I keep erasing my DOS partition and end up with just my NETBSD
: partition with no room to put a DOS partition. What should I do?
: Thanks
: alambert
I have the same exact problem. Got 2 HD (WD IDE, 340, 120). I tried
to install NetBSD on the first one which has about 125 MB DOS partition
but ended up erasing the dos partition (NetBSD installed fine). Fdisk
reported that there was no disk space (DOS 6.0 :-() when I tried to
create the DOS partition afresh. I had the offset beginning at 390 as
the DOS partition ended at 387 (as done manually and reported by many HD
utilities).
I had root, swap and 2 other partitions (a, b, h, g) if that is of
any use. The sizes were appr.
256740 start
82500 root
52800 swap (have 4MB RAM)
178200 /usr
95760 /usr1
-------
666000 Total
SPECS - WD2340 - b/s=512, s/t=55, t/c=12, s/c=660, interleave=1
note: haven't tried using the second (WD 2120, 120 MB) disk yet. was
planning to get NetBSD and DOS working and then disklabel'ling the
second disk and mounting it somewhere...if anyone can see problems with
this please let me know.
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Pragnesh Sampat [psampat@astro.ocis.temple.edu] 215 978 8243