Date:        Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:41:14 +0000
    From:        joerch <helix@mayn.de>
    Message-ID:  <20020219114114.A210@mayn.de>

  | i install only netbsd on this disk and while it does not
  | work, getting the whole disk parted in 2 slices, i will
  | first do a "primary slice" for the system and after 
  | installation i do the 2. for the data.

NetBSD wants only one "slice" - or more accurately, it doesn't
much care about slices at all - the DOS label is used only for
booting and locating the NetBSD label, after that, slices are
essentially irrelevant.

If the only think on your drive is to be NetBSD, then just use
the "disc is dedicated to NetBSD" option in sysinst, and do without
tye nonsense DOS partitioning completely.

As for cyl limits, you will want your root partition ('a') in the
first 1024 cyls of the drive, if the system is old enough that it
doesn't use LBA addressing (as the bios sees it), that's all that
matters.

Note that this is quite different from FreeBSD.   Don't try and
create more than one NetBSD slice, it won't work properly at all.
The NetBSD label (the one disklabel manipulates) will allow you to
reference anywhere on the drive, regardless of what the DOS label
claims belongs to NetBSD.   So if you have space on the drive not inside
your NetBSD slice, you can just reference it from the BSD label.

kre