Subject: Install from FAT16 partition...
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/2001 04:12:42
Hello!
One of my PCs has a single ATA fixed disk (primary and sole
device on its ATA channel). The disk is a 13.7 Gb with the
following logical parameters...
3309 Cylinders
128 Heads
63 Sectors per track
...there is already an operating system using two 'BIOS
partitions' arranged as follows...
Start End Size Use
~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
1 520 2.1 Gb FAT16
521 773 1.0 Gb FAT16
...I hope to make a 1Gb NetBSD disklabel, like this...
Start End Size Use
~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
774 1015 1.0 Gb NetBSD
1016 3309 9.5 Gb free
I can boot netbsd.INSTALL.gz using DOSBOOT.COM, which nicely
gets around the fact that this machine's primary diskette
drive is 5.25" 1.2Mb ;-)
Now, here's where it gets odd. I have downloaded the binary
distribution sets (sans X at present) into a directory in
the primary FAT16 partition. What do I tell sysinst when it
asks me what device the unmounted filesystem is on?
I have a vague recollection that I did this once (on another
machine, and an older version of NetBSD) by editing a text
file by hand... the trouble is I have no idea what the text
file was, or what I had to enter. I've got install.html in
front of me, but can't seem to find anything relevent. Any
ideas?
Regards,
- Andy.