Howdy,

Have built two PC's. Am trying to install dual OS's on 
both of them: Win2K, NetBSD. It doesn't seem to be 
working out nicely.

I have only ever installed NetBSD 1.5 on a lone PC, all 
by itself. A year ago I installed Linux 6 onto a PC 
where Win98 had previously resided alone. Both of these 
experiences were no sweat. This is different.

At first I tried to use NetBSD to partition the 20GB HD 
and install itself on part of it. That worked out fine.

Then, when I tried to put Win2K onto the other part, 
Win2K said it was corrupt. 

Win2K looked to be my biggest headache so I did a fresh 
install of Win2K over the top of all, letting it hog the 
whole disk.

Then I used PartitionMagic to partition the disk so 
NetBSD dould have 5GB. (On my wife and son's PC Win2K 
will be top banana.) When I said I wanted to put on an 
OS, PartitionMagic seems to insist that I take too-large 
hunk of that 20GB. I can't pick anything near to 5GB 
without PartitionMagic reporting that massive hunks of 
space will be 'unused'. Why is that?

Thanks,

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