Thus spake Jukka Marin
> I want to do a fresh install of NetBSD 1.4 on my laptop.  I newfs'ed the
> hard disk partitions and booted off the 1.4 install floppy.  How do I
> install 1.4 on the existing partitions?  I tried the Upgrade option, but
> it whined that it couldn't find my old fstab (no wonder, after newfs).
> Then I tried the fresh install option, but it wants me to repartition
> the disk which I do not want to do.

Why not.  If you have done a newfs then there is nothing to save.  Is
thereanother OS on the drive that you are trying to protect?  I think
that the install program lets you keep other partitions unchanged.

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