Subject: Re: Trouble installing NetBSD-v. 0.9
To: None <mola@u.washington.edu>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/02/1993 10:44:14
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 02:47:14 -0800 (PST)
>From: Mark Tamola <mola@u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Trouble installing NetBSD-v. 0.9
>
>When I used fdisk, I set my primary DOS partition at 44MB, and the 
>extended DOS partition at 200MB (my disk holds a total of 244MB).  My 
>hard disk stats are 1010 cylinder, 9 tracks per cylinder, and 55 sectors 
>per track.  The instructions also say to use a partition editor to label 
>the NetBSD partition as type 0xA5, but fdisk doesn't allow you to do 
>this.  Maybe that may be the whole problem, yet I don't know where I can 
>get a partition editor.  Is one FTPable?

Use archie to look for pfdisktc.zip.

I still have a copy of this around.  Can anyone think of a good reason
NOT to add this program to the FTP archive in NetBSD-*/utilities?  You
can get away with not using Rawrite, but a partition editor is kind of
necessary.  It would probably make sense to put booteasy and os-bs
there, as well.
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Mike Long                                         Mike.Long@Analog.com
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