How do i do these things [manual fdisk and bootblocks?]

-dg
----- Original Message -----
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: David Guynn <dguynn@geocities.com>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Problems(sysinst)


>On Feb 7, David Guynn wrote
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I just used the wonderful FIPS utility to split my 13.6 gig drive into
two
>> nice partitions:
>>
>> Win/DOS  9868 MB
>> Empty        3082 MB
>>
>> which adds up to be 12951 mb (okay, so the box lied) When I run sysinst,
on
>> the partition
>> screen, it shows the screen, but for the partitions it shows are:
>>
>> Partition    Start      End        Size
>>     0               0        9869       9869      Unknown
>>
>> THis is all well and fine, so I make a NetBSD partition, starts at 9870,
>> size, 3080. It sets the partition type, but not my sizes. PLEASE HELP!!!
>>
>
>Sysinst doesn't handle well >8Gb disks yet. You'll have to do this by hand
>using fdisk (I'm not sure this one handle >8Gb disks well either).
>Maybe sysinst will work properly after that ...
>
>And you'll have to install the new, -current boot blocks, which use the
>int13 extention. The "tradidtional" BIOS call can't address over the 8Gb
limit.
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--