Subject: Re: multiple netbsd slices on the same HD
To: Paolo Losi <p.losi@lombardiacom.it>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/18/2000 09:57:07
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Paolo Losi wrote:
> 
> 
> What do you mean by you can't? What is going to happen exactly?
> if the problem is only that of the installation program I could follow 
> Fredrick suggestion...

NetBSD (and the boot loader) only looks at the first partition of type
MBR_PTYPE_NETBSD. It will ignore the others.

> 
> By the way... IMHO it would be so nice to have a shell script for the installation
> procedure: it would be much more easy to keep track of what the installation
> program is expected to do and to keep track of changes...
> Just my small entry for the wish list.

There is one, used by the boot-tiny floppy.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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