Unfortunately, I only have a Win2000 laptop available to me and it won't let me
create any partition that does not take up the entire disk (to my suprise). 
I've also tried Partition Magic but that won't even show the CF disk as
something it wants to play with.

Could it have something to do with the geometry of the disk?  Sysinst always
complains that it can't "determine the BIOS geometry of the disk".  It says the
physical geometry is 978 cylinders 8 sectors 32 heads... and then says its
guess of the BIOS geometry is 15 cylinders 255 sectors and 63 heads.  Are
either of these geometries correct for a 128MB CF card?

-steve 


--- Sanford Barton <bart@tequinox.com> wrote:
> I think when I did this, I used an msdos prompt on a win98laptop (which cf
> to pcmcia adapter) to:
> 	- erase all of the existing partitions
>  	- create a 10mg msdos primary
> 	- then used format to format the partition
> 
> after that, CE was content to leave it alone and the sysintall picked up the
> reset of the unused space.
> 
> Bart
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve K [mailto:skrul@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:30 AM
> To: port-hpcmips@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problem installing on z50
> 
> 
> I've tried using sysinst to do the partitions -- after it writes the new
> partition table i reboot into CE to see if it likes what I did, and every
> time
> CE will reformat the entire CF card, not just the small MSDOS partition.
> 
> I've even tried someone else's suggestion to "wipe" the entire CF card by
> creating a single NetBSD parition and then let CE reformat it.  I've even
> put
> the CF card in a laptop and formatted it.
> 
> Does the order of the partitions matter?  For me, a is always the NetBSD
> parition, b is swap.. c and d I really don't understand -- the installer
> says
> they represent the "entire disk" and "netbsd" -- but why do they overlap the
> others?  And e is always the MSDOS parition.
> 
> Is there something else I have to do to tell CE not to clobber the whole CF
> disk?
> 
> thanks for the help,
> -steve
> 
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