>From: Alexandre Vermeerbergen <Alexandre.Vermeerbergen@imag.fr>
>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:34:12 +0200

>  I run NetBSD on my office Sparc, but one I tryed to
>install NetBSD on my homebrew PC (plain 486dx2/60/16M RAm/1.3G disk).
>  The installation process nearly made me loose my Linux partitions.
>Not a problem for the system which can be reinstalled everyday
>(there's allways a new kernel ;-), but that was painful for
>my own production.

Did you remember to set the partition ID for your NetBSD partition to
0xA5?

>  Is these any differences if I try with FreeBSD ?

AFAIK, FreeBSD will also give you grief if you don't set the partition
ID to 0xA5.

Maybe the install notes need to emphasize this point a bit more.
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