Subject: Re: help installing dual-boot system with NetBSD 1.2 and Windows 95
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/08/1997 18:07:16
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

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>   You have to get all of NetBSD's root and DOS's C in the first 1024
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>   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.
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>   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.

I'm not sure, but I think this is a not-so-good idea. We don't really
support multiple NetBSD partitions. Though I bet your advice'll work, it
might break in a weird way. Instead, make partition 2 the size of
partitions 2 and 4 above (3067 / 2), and make sure ALL of partition a fits
within the first 470 Mb of the drive ( a 200 MB partition at the very
first of the NetBSD partition would be supper).

Take care,

Bill