> 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:
> 
> (1) The disk partitioning mechanism appears to be broken.  Nearly
> anything I tried to modify about the NetBSD partition would cause the
> start/size fields to vanish and wound up giving me a 0.0Meg space.

Try to use sector units instead of megabytes when partitioning the disk;
I think megabytes->sectors conversion may ignore MBR partition offset.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
Ustav vypocetni techniky Masarykovy univerzity, Brno
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