On Oct 11, Rik van Mierlo wrote
> hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install NetBSD on my PC, so I divided my first harddisk into
> 4 partitions:
> 
> 350Mb FAT (drive C)
> 400Mb no partition type, meant for NetBSD
>  60Mb no partition type, meant for NetBSD swap
> 200Mb FAT (drive D) Windows NT swap.
> 
> When I boot from the NetBSD install floppy I choose install, it gives me
> the warning that I should backup my data, and asks whether I want to
> continue.
> So I select yes, after which it stopped  with the remark that wd1 and
> wd0 don't have a disklabel.
> 
> reboot -> utilities -> /bin/sh
> 
> "fdisk -i /dev/rwd0d" or something like that and the remark about wd0 not
> having a disklabel disappeared. So I rebooted again and did the same for
> wd1 after which there were no more remarks from the install program, it
> just stopped.
> 
> What is the install program looking for at that moment? Should I try to
> edit the disklabels by hand?

No, you should need that. You should't even need to 'fdisk -i', the install
program should just propose you to change the partition table.
How much ram does your PC have ?

Also, you don't need a separate partition for NetBSD and NetBSD swap.
NetBSD doesn't work the same way as linux does: in the BIOS partition
table, you make a partition for NetBSD (type 165). Then NetBSD will
partition this portion of disk for his needs (e.g. /, swap, /usr, ...).
So I suggest you delete partition 2 & 3, and you just create a 460Mb partition
for NetBSD.

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