Well, I downloaded Håvard's disk image, and was able to boot it, but FDISK
out of sysinst didn't help, and I need some advice on making this thing
install. Please help!


-dg
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: David Guynn <dguynn@geocities.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 1999 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Disk Problems(sysinst)


>> How do i do these things [manual fdisk and bootblocks?]
>
>disklabel:
>I missed the beginning of this. Did sysinst write a disklabel on your disk?
>disklabel -r wd0
>to find out assuming there's one ide disk, which is the one with NetBSD on
it.
>Does it look OK?
>
>fdisk:
>fdisk -u wd0
>prompts you for info for the partition table.
>
>bootblocks:
>/usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a
>installs bootblocks, but Manuel mentioned needing a "current" biosboot.sym.
>I don't know how current it has to be, but grabbing it from a recent
snapshot
>should be good enough..
>
>Good luck,
>
>Patrick