On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:33:49AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:56:00PM -0700, Jerry VanBrimmer wrote:
> > My ide1 drive is already partitioned likr this:
> > hdb1  Pri      ext3
> > hdb2  Ext   
> > hdb5  Logical  ext3
> > hdb6  Log      ext3
> > hdb7  Log      ext3
> > hdb8  Log      ext3
> > hdb9  Log      ext3
> > hdb10 Log      ext3
> > hdb11 Log      ext3
> > 
> > I would like to install NetBSD in hdb11. Is that possible?
> 
> Should be - provided it is big enough (a few GB is plenty for the basic
> install).

hdb11 is 17GB. Will sysinst see it as it's formatted now, in ext3? Or
should I reformat that partition before I start the install?

> 
> > I have lilo installed in the mbr of hda. Will lilo boot NBSD installed
> > in hdb11?
> 
> I've not configured lilo, but all it will need to do is read in the
> first sector of the netbsd partition (chainloading?)

I've heard about "bootblocks", what are they?

> 
> sysinst might try quite hard to replace lilo with the netbsd mbr code,
> but I think you get to say NO...

Can anyone confirm this?

> 
> 	David
>