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From: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: 2.0 Alpha Notes
Date: 21 Nov 1994 08:55:09 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Tuebingen (WSI)
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References: <CzKorx.C42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In article C42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
|>I haven't tried the newFreeBSD installation, but one annoying feature
|>in all previous *BSD 386 installations has been this incredibly
|>uninformative warning message from disklabel:
|>
|>   overwriting disk with DOS partition table? (n):
|>
|>There are several reasons why this message might occur, and disklabel
|>should tell you which one it is (for example, if you have a BSD
|>partition but it doesn't have a C partition, you get this message, and
|>loose your MBR if you say "yes").

When I installed NetBSD 1.0, I got this prompt, and typed "Y" because I thought
that to install NetBSD I must overwrite the DOS partition table. The whole
MBR was screwed up. Reason: I have written down my parition info:
	cyl 1 - 311	DOS
	cyl 312 - 1011  NetBSD
When NetBSD asked me for the starting offset of the NetBSD partition I typed in
312. But NetBSD wants the offset based on start 0, not 1 as the DOS Fdisk program.
BTW: I have created the partitions prior to installing NetBSD: Why do I have to
enter all this info again? Also, NetBSD was able to read my drive information,
but then it asked me this information again... Wouldn't it be nice if the NetBSD 
install program would remember this information?