Subject: Re: Weird math...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Ruey-Shyang Guo <rsguo@ms25.hinet.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1999 13:44:00
Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else seen suspicious or confusing numbers from the NetBSD
> installer?  In particular, I have two partitions, and the 'start' sector
> of one is later than the end sector of the other - but when I look at them
> in cylinders, NetBSD (1.3K, I guess) suggests that the first ends at cylinder
> 1257, and the next starts at 1256.  ?

You should use 1256 for next start. You can use the option 'sectors'
again then calculate the cylinder number of first end by sectors/16/63.
You will get the number '1256'. :)