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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: NETBSD,DOS,and Harddisk partition Message-ID: <almCDHIyp.GI6@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <5005@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1993Sep16.041733.7945@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 06:20:48 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1993Sep16.041733.7945@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> psampat@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Pragnesh Sampat) writes: >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 If you try the FreeBSD install disks from FreeBSD.cdrom.com, and you should have better luck. You can use these to install NetBSD 0.9. Any questions please cc to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.cdrom.com.