>> 2. Is it possible to wipe Linux off the first part of the drive and use 
>> that for the NetBSD installation?

> Yes, you could just newfs this partition, and mount it on some directory.
> The sources don't have to live in /usr/src, obj dirs don't have to be in
> /usr/obj

Thanks for your help. Now if you could just give me a little hint about how to accomplish the above I would be most grateful.

Here's what disklabel gives but the Linux partition seems to be 'missing' (i.e. Cyl. 0 -  7530) 

bsd: {4} disklabel /dev/wd1
# /dev/wd1d:
type: unknown
disk: mydisk
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 945
cylinders: 13410
total sectors: 12672450
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    829710   7116795     4.2BSD   1024  8192    80  # (Cyl.   7531 -   8408)
  b:   1575315   7946505       swap                     # (Cyl.   8409 -  10075)
   c:   5555655   7116795     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.   7531 -  13409)
    d:  12672450         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  13409)
     e:   3150630   9521820     4.2BSD   1024  8192    80  # (Cyl.  10076 -  13409)

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