On Tue, 20 May 1997, Will Stoltenberg wrote:

The partition information from the install kernel was different from the
output of the pfdisk program, I just used the output from the kernel and
everything worked fine.

: When I use pfdisk to display partition information, I get one disk
: geometry, 766 cyl, 128 hds, 63 sect.  When I look at my BIOS or the boot
: message of the kernel installation floppy, I get a different geometry:
: 6163 cyl, 16 hds, 63 sect.  Which do I give the installation program
: when I am setting up NetBSD partitions?  The install.txt says in one
: place that I want to make sure to use the geometries that DOS sees, and
: in another part it emphatically says that I would be best off using the
: geometry that NetBSD gives through the boot messages.  Which is correct?
:
: More info: It's a WD EIDE drive, 3.1G
: 	2 partitions, the first is ~1.1G, and is where I'm installing
: 		      the second is the remainder and holds Windows 95
:
: 	Thanks for your time,
: 		-Will Stoltenberg
:

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Aaron Groom
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