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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