On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Macintosh Guru wrote:

> I am now attempting to help a friend of mine install NetBSD 1.2 on one of
> the PC's here at work, and I have some questions.
> 
> 1) What software should I use to format the HDD of this PC?  
> 2) How do I make the partitions.  I tried pfdisk.exe, but I think I must
> be doing something incorrectly.

	It depends on the HD and how you are planning to set it up.
	If you want the machine to dual boot with both DOS & NetBSD then
	use fdisk to split it into two partitions, and install DOS on
	the first one as if it were the entire disk, then use pfdisk.exe
	to set the partition ID of the second partition as in the notes.

	If its all to be NetBSD, then dont prep the disk at all before
	running the install floppies.
> 
> 3)  When booting from the kernel floppy, I get the following message(s)
> 
> 	....
> 	Error: C:60 H:0 S:2
> 	Error: C:60 H:1 S:0
> 	....
> 
> The above is just a shor texcerpt of the errors.  The preceed and follow
> what you see there.  Is this a problem with the way that I tried to format
> and partition the drive?
> 
	Sounds like a floppy disk problem - have you tried different
	floppy disks?

> We booted from the kernel floppy on the machine directly next to the
> one we are wanting to install upon without problem, however it is an
> active workstation, and cannot be made into a Un*x box.
> 
> I am not a subscriber to this list, so please make any responses directly
> to me.
> 

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