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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!van-bc!news.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get it to install Date: 16 Aug 1995 00:55:21 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <40rflp$8ud@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <40mmfi$sa4@noc.tor.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <40mmfi$sa4@noc.tor.hookup.net>, Dan Murray <benton@noc.tor.hookup.net> wrote: >Why does it need to be so difficult? Because the large majority of types of machines out there do not use an extra partitioning scheme for multiple operating systems, NetBSD has to build this into the file system. If you dedicate a disk to NetBSD you'll find everything quite simple. If you need to put a set of NetBSD partitions within a set of IBM-PC partitions, things get more difficult. >1. OS/2 / Win95 partition >2. partition >3. desired BSD partition >4. boot manager partition (perishable) >5. swap partition (but BSD cannot see this partition!) Something is very wrong here, since I assume you are talking about IBM-PC partitions. An IBM-PC disk can have only four partitions on it, so I don't know where you get the fifth one from. Linux uses a separate IBM-PC partition for its swap space. This is not only a waste of a partition, but will no doubt cause interesting problems when Linux is ported to other architectures that don't use the IBM-PC partitioning scheme to allow for multiple OSs. Your swap space is in the IBM-PC BSD partition, and is BSD partition `b'. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.