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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de!news.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de!news.wsi!usenet 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) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3apn9d$dk@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <CzKorx.C42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE NNTP-Posting-Host: inca.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de 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?