Subject: Re: help installing dual-boot system with NetBSD 1.2 and Windows 95
To: Steven Winikoff <smw@alcor.concordia.ca>
From: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/08/1997 16:26:00
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  You have to get all of NetBSD's root and DOS's C in the first 1024
cylinders. 

  If you stick with the real geometry, then you get 470Mb to play
with.
  I suggest that you use pfdisk from a DOS boot floppy.

  Make partition 1: 200Mb partition for DOS.
  Make partition 2: 200Mb partition for NetBSD.
  Make partition 3: (3067-400)/2 in size for DOS.
  Make partition 4: (3067-400)/2 in size for NetBSD.

  Use pfdisk to make a BSD partition label on partition 2. Tell it to
import the DOS partitions (it can do this). Make slice 'a' be all of
partition 2, and slice 'b','e','f' (as desired) be partition 4. You
can use slices 'g' and 'h' for parition 1/3.

  Now, install basic DOS on partition 1 (C), and make sure that it
likes partition 3 as D. (don't install everything yet is my advice).

  You should now be able to install NetBSD, just make sure that the
disklabel doesn't get trashed. I don't recall how to make the install
script do that, perhaps using the "Upgrade" fs instead, or do it by
hand.

  Maybe mouse or Anne can give you a hand, since you are
geographically close.

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