>On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:42:46AM -0500, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I remember reading on this list that NetBSD required a primary partition as seen
>> by BIOS, so the idea was to put a primary DOS partition at the beginning of the
>
>Yes. Not only to be able to load the kernel, but also for the kernel to find
>the disklanel.
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
--
Next question is whether it is possible, having installed NetBSD on a primary
partition, to try out the next snapshot or prerelease version while leaving the
installed working release version intact.  Can this be fitted into NetBSD's 
subdivision of the partition, or would it require a whole new separate primary
partition?