Subject: Re: install problems on 2.0beta on i386
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/18/2004 21:50:35
In message <20040419012452.GH3370@mewburn.net>, Luke Mewburn writes:
>

>
>FWIW: I installed 2.0_BETA (built from sources updated a couple of
>days ago) onto a laptop that already had an existing 8GB WinXP
>partition, and it worked _flawlessly_.
>
>This including adding a separate 10GB MBR partition for NetBSD,
>partitioning the NetBSD disklabel, and setting up the NetBSD MBR
>boot selector to select between WinXP & NetBSD.
>
>It only took 6 minutes from the time to boot off CD into sysinst
>to the reboot into multiuser NetBSD after the installation finished...
>
>I haven't yet tested installing that release onto a disk dedicated
>to NetBSD.

Right.  I'm reluctant to file a PR without *some* confirmation.  But 
I'm planning on buying another disk soon....

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb