On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, billy ball wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, billy ball wrote:
> > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > > formatted the Microdrive under Linux using a USB CF reader.  I gave it a
> > > > 20 meg DOS partition, and the rest I gave to NetBSD.  I copied all the
> > > 
> > > so, you partitioned and made the first partition type msdos and the second
> > > type Linux ext2 and then *formatted* both partitions properly, right?
> > 
> > No.  I only formatted the first partition as msdos.  I had fdisk change
> > the label for the second partition to BSD, but I didn't format it as
> > anything at that point (which is the same thing I did with the
> > CompactFlash).
> 
> my approach is to 1) use Linux fdisk to partition /dev/hde1 as 20MB msdos
> and /dev/hde2 as Linux ext2; 2) format *both* partitions using msdos and
> ext2 (mkfs util) 3) copy pbsdboot and install and greg's kernel to msdos
> partition; 4) boot the install; 5) under NetBSD, leave first partition
> alone, use 'rest of disk' for NetBSD; 6) create a single '/' root
> partition and a swap partition of about 32MB; 7) install...
> 
> hth...

Other than formatting the second partition as ext2, that's basically what
I did.  However, when I get home this evening, I'll give it another shot
and this time I'll format that second partition.

Adam