Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!mola From: mola@u.washington.edu (Mark Tamola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installation Problems Date: 1 Mar 1994 09:37:35 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2kv2cv$po5@news.u.washington.edu> References: <762367542tim.news@xplora.toppoint.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu In article <762367542tim.news@xplora.toppoint.de>, Tim Weilkiens <tim@xplora.toppoint.de> wrote: >I have installation problems with NetBSD. >I will install it from DOS-floppies. >I do not know how to prepare the floppy to boot the kernel >from it. Use the "rawrite" utility to write the kernel raw images to floppy disks. This should be available at the same place you found the NetBSD distribution, usually in a directory such as "dos-tools" or "tools" or something like that. Just use a regular formatted DOS disk for this (it doesn't really matter since rawrite restructures the whole disk anyway). >My second big problem is that I do not know how to set my >hard disk partition of type 0xA5 and how to get informations >about the blocks and sectors. Use the "pfdisk" utility to edit your disk partitions. This should also be in a "tools" directory at the site you found the NetBSD distribution. Another risky thing could be to just use the DOS fdisk program to partition your primary DOS partition to the size you want, and then don't even bother with the rest of the space, and just telling NetBSD where the DOS partition ends. Or, you could just skip NetBSD altogether, and install FreeBSD, which is almost the same thing, and has a much, much easier installation process (it figures all the numbers out for ya). I prefer NetBSD, but hey, use whichever works for you, as NetBSD is a lot more technical. Good luck! Mark Steven Tamola mola@u.washington.edu