On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:16:12PM +0100, Bernd Limbach wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I tried to add a msdos partition to my NetBSD system and followed Fredericos
> Lupis short guide. He describes this with a primary partition when I
> remember that correctly. On my Inspiron 4000 I have within an extended
> partition 2 FAT32 partitions. Using Partition Magic 6.0 sector informations
> (for "disklabel -e wd0") and adding one of these into "/etc/fstab" always
> brought me into an interruption of the boot process when NetBSD wants to add
> that file system (something insconsistency).

What was the exact message ?

> 
> I assume that this has something to do with the given position and/or size
> of the FAT32 partition I gave the disklabel. The problem is, as far as I
> understand the command fdisk, that it only shows _real_ primary or extended
> partitions, but not partitions within the extended partition. Is this
> correct or do I miss an option for fdisk?

True, the NetBSD fdisk doesn't print partition in extended partition
(at last not in 1.5.x - in -current it can print thenm if I remember
properly)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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