Subject: Re: partition sizes?
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/17/1998 11:39:37
On Aug 17,  2:20pm, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
>Space Case writes:
>> So, would something like this work?
>> 
>> 1.  100MB  NetBSD root
>> 2.  100MB  NetBSD swap
>> 3.  3GB    Win/DOS
>> 4.  rest   NetBSD usr
>
>Well, the only problem there is that NetBSD doesn't yet really have
>support for handling multiple MBR partitions, so you would have to
>hand edit the BSD disk label in the first MBR partition to get this
>right. Other than that, I believe this would work for you just fine.

OK.  I don't understand the 'multiple MBR partitions' part (indeed,
I just managed to get this Gateway installed NetBSD-only; I do much
better on Mac ;), but I'll go do some studying and figure it out...

Thanks,
~Steve

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