Hi,

One month ago, I tried to install NetBSD into my laptop which has a LARGE
IDE hard disk.  I destroied my HD's geometry sometimes.  Last of all, I
understood that how to use NetBSD installer.  :-)

The answer is in a archived mail of current-users mailing list.  It saied
that "Use the number of sectors as an address of partitions."


First of all, I used pfdisk to make a partition for NetBSD like following.

  geometry 657 64 63 (cyls heads sectors)
  #  ID  First(cyl)  Last(cyl)  Name  # start, length (sectors)
  1   6      0        152       DOSbi # 63, 616833
  2 165    153        657       unkno # 616896, 2036160

Therefore I answered to installer that I want to use sectors as a measure
and the offset was started from 616896, and I successed.

Good luck.
--- Kazushi