Wenchi Liao wrote:
> 
> "Patrick Welche" wrote:
> >Richard PLOIX wrote:
> >> 
> >> fdisk sd1
> >>    NetBSD geometry cyl 7637 head 8 sect/track 274 (2192 s/tr)
> >> partiton table
> >>    0 sysid 15 (Ext. partition LBA)
> >>       start 16065 size 16755795 (8181MB) flag 0x0
> >>    1 sysid 169 (NetBSD)
> >>       start 14991088 size 1749216 (854MB) flag 0x0
> >>    2<UNUSED>
> >>    3<UNUSED>
> >
> >That means the first entry starts at 16065, and ends at 16771860, so how
> >can the second entry start at 14991088<16771860 ? The two entries overlap!
> 
> How does netbsd deal with extended partitions? My recollection
> is fuzzy, but I though netbsd's fdisk doesn't even seen the
> extended partitions.

I don't think there is a problem with "extended", but there seems to be a
problem with the layout. How big is your disk and how big do you want to make
the NetBSD "partition"? Once that is decided, you can write a correct
"partition" table onto sd1 with fdisk. Then you can disklabel the NetBSD
"partition" with partitions (no quotes :))

Cheers,

Patrick