Subject: Re: bad144 on IDE disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/2001 06:54:06
from Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>:

>>try everything manually - it's really fast method :)

>I actually don't think this is reasonable; even if hard-core guys install
>by hand, we _need_ something like sysinst to make it easier for newbies
>to install.

>The real problem right now is that bad144 is busted on IDE drives for
>i386 if you have a Windows and NetBSD partition on the same drive.

Would this apply to having DOS and NetBSD partitions on the same drive?

Does this apply to all possible Windows file systems (FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS)?