On Mar 3, Ken Harrenstien wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install 1.3.3 via FTP and gave up after several hours of
> frustration.
> 
> I did read the entire INSTALL document, pulled over the boot floppy
> image, took off all drives except a fresh virginal 2.1G drive, and
> did my best, but:
> [...]

This may be a problem with how NetBSD handles the BIOS geometry:
it gets it from the MBR, and not from the BIOS (should be fixed for
1.4). So, with a virgin disk it may get wrong geometries values.
The following ususally solves the problem:
boot from a dos floppy with the fdisk utilitie. Run 'fdisk /mbr'; then
fdisk to create a partition (which may be erased later by the NetBSD install
if you want, the goal here is just to get fdisk to write a partition table).
Then reboot with the NetBSD install floppy, it should now get the BIOS
geometry rigth.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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