Hi,

I found I had to put a NetBSD partition on my Dos drive.  I believe that
if there isn't any NetBSD partition, then the disklabel gets written to
the beginning of the disk.  This didn't cause a problem for me with OS-BS,
but it did cause some problems with dos (it was so long ago now, I can't
remember - sorry).  I do remember disklabel saying something like "erase
previous contents of the disk" if I didn't set it up properly.  You can
either put a small (1 cyl) NetBSD partition on the disk, or go without a
disklabel.  I havn't played with it since 1.2, so I'm not sure if there
are other options (1.2 didn't even have the no disklabel option). 

Hope this helps,
		Rick


On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Joel Reicher wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Ted Lemon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The NetBSD disk label goes in the first sector of the NetBSD DOS
> > partition if you are sharing the disk between DOS and NetBSD.   OS-BS
> > has nothing to do with this.
> > 
> 
> Firstly, the two are not sharing a disk. I have two disks, and they get a 
> disk each. My DOS disk is the primary master, so that's where the BIOS looks.
> 
> Secondly, I'm using the OS-BS _beta_, which rights to a few sectors of 
> the disk other than the bootblock. I know which ones, but I _don't_ know 
> where disklabel would write. The whole point of my question is to ensure 
> that OS-BS really won't have anything to do with this. :)
> 
> 	- Joel
> 

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