On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:21:45 -0500  Chuck Cranor wrote:
> 
> For the IDE system, my objective was to get DOS and NetBSD to live
> together on the same disk.   I first tried installing NetBSD 1.0.   I 
> could not get it to work (disk controller errors).    I then switched to 
> the NetBSD -current snapshot on ftp.netbsd.org in pub/NetBSD/arch/i386 
> (the one from May should work).    

Ah, this seemed key, you must use -current for these disks.

I just made a new pair of i386 boot floppies and life seemed to be very
happy.  Now if I could only find a driver that supports the Intel
EtherExpress PRO, I'd be set :-)