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From: j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk
Subject: installation problems on a new IDE drive
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I've recently installed a new HD, a maxtor 7345AT giving a 330Mb 
formatted capacity.  After installing a 60Mb partition for MSDos I
intended to install NetBSD in the remaining 270Mb.  I've yet to
download NetBSD however but I do have 386BSD 0.1 on disks that I used
previously when my HD space was limited.  However on installing 0.1 on 
my system it said "it appears you already have 386BSD installed on your 
system would you like to install over it?" - this is odd - its a brand 
new drive fresh out of the anti static bag...  I then went on to 
install it over the 386bsd it thought was already there.  This works 
okay but on attempting to boot of the HD it just gives a disk bad 
message and reboots itslef.

When I boot the fixit floppy it appears that the BSD partition doesn't 
have a disklabel.  It also won't shutdown -todos cause it says it can't
make the dos partition active.

Does anyone have any ideas why this should happen - my best guess is
that 0.1 doesn't recognise large dos partitions a la dos 4 and 5 and
will work with a 32 meg or smaller partition.  I don't want to have to
backup 60 meg of dos space tho and I like it as one large partition.
If this is the correct solution will upgrading to NetBSD fix it ? 
or is there another answer ?

thanx in advance for any help ...

Jake Greenland

j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk