From my experience setting up 1.5.2 on a 128 and 320 CF:

using sysinst:

make partition 0 a fat16 10meg partition
make partition 1 a 20 meg swap
make partition 2 the root partition (use the rest of the CF)

save the partitions, have sysinst get the tarballs and go thru it's install.

When you reboot into wince, it wants to format the 10meg partition- let it.

Then copy over the bootloader and Greg's Aug 17th kernal.

Don't newfs the msdos partition - let wince do it.

I don't think X will run on 128. It didn't fit on mine. I got a 320meg + 
next day shipping for $157 (www.upgradenation.com). X fits nicely on this.


-andy diller

--On Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:10 PM -0800 Steve K <skrul@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Hey folks --
>
> I've had this working before, but now I'm trying to get it going again --
> NetBSD on my z50 with a 128MB CF card.  I believe I am having problems
> with partitioning the disk.
>
> I've been through the install instructions twice but the same thing
> happened each time.  My partitions match exactly what is shown in the
> install.txt as a sample fdisk footprint for a 128MB CF card.  However,
> when I reboot after doing the manual install, CE thinks the CF card is
> all messed up and then creates hundreds of FILExxx.CHK files on the CF
> card.  Plus CE reads the size of the CF card as around 128MB, so I am
> guessing all the netbsd stuff on it got trashed.
>
> One thing I might be doing which could be causing a problem is I run newfs
> /dev/wd0e (the MSDOS partition on the CF card) because I assume that has
> to be done before I can copy the pbsdboot.exe and kernel file to the DOS
> partition as instructed in the install.txt.  However, after the newfs, I
> try to copy the files to the DOS partition and get a funny error,
> something like "bad address" and the files are not copied.  Could this be
> causing the problem?
>
> Also, is it possible to get X working with only a 128MB CF card?
>
> thanks for any help,
> -steve
>
>
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