Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on laptop and disk geometry settings
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/28/2001 17:09:07
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:44:06PM +0100, Bernd Limbach wrote:
>
> > Q5:
> > Would it be much simpler if I would generate another primary partition with
> > that unused slice to install NetBSD on?
> 
> The NetBSD installer should be able to create this primary partition.

If there's an unused partition, and free space, the NetBSD installer
will offer to make that the new NetBSD partition and install to it.
Works fine! Maybe that's what Bernd means by "using the Unused slice"?

> > Q6:
> > A SuSE Linux 7.1 installed pretty nice on my Laptop using the Unused slice
> > of the HD. Is something similar thought for NetBSD?
> 
> I don't understand. Ha yes, you need to explicitlely create the partition,
> you can't say "just install in the free space".
> I don't think something like this is planned for NetBSD.