Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <3EA9ECE2.9040108@mindspring.com>, Art Lemasters writes:
> 
>> Sysinst only mounted two of the six or so partitions on
>>the Debian Linux drive (wd0).  The new NetBSD 1.6 system
>>does the same.  I have no idea what causes this.  The drive is
>>an IBM IDE 20 gig. using LBA for now.  ...any clues,  or is
>>more information needed to find the answer?  I'll be wiping
>>it and installing a new NetBSD system on it soon, but
>>curiosity has the best of me.
>>
>>Art

> Hmm -- if I recall correctly, Linux uses FDISK partitions for its 
> drives, including extended partitions.  NetBSD uses its own disk label. 
> If you know the sector addresses and sizes of the other partitions -- 
> you may have to get that from Linux or DOS -- you should be able to 
> hand-edit the NetBSD disk label for the drive.
> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
> 		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)

   Thanks, Steve. I'll try it.  Attempts from sysinst did give
the message, "no disk label" for the GNU/Linux drive.  It also
appears to be important to check the hard format on a drive
before installing NetBSD (or anything).  ...will read all of
the documentation on that now.


Art