Subject: Re: Installing on PC with "drive overlay"
To: STEVE LUMOS <slumos@nevada.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/20/1998 10:21:49
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> WinNT
> NetBSD		<- 1GB barier is in here.
> Extra WinNT

Doh! Make that the 512 MB barier. So shrink the first WinNT to 480 MB,
then stick the beginings of the NetBSD partition just above. Make sure the
"a" partition (and any altroot partition) fully fits in the first 1024
cylinders, and you're golden. Assuming WinNT can access the whole disk.

Another option, with one of the BIOS patch ROMS, would be to figure out
where ONTRACK put the WinNT partition, throw out ONTRACK, make a partition
(in the root MBR partition table, not in ONTRACK's stuff) which covers
that area. You will probably be fine then. Just add another partition for
NetBSD and you're set. :-)

Take care,

Bill