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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!ra!wintermute.phys.psu.edu!news From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS. Date: 22 Apr 1993 07:45:32 -0400 Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1r60gs$aii@leps5.phys.psu.edu> References: <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <1r5vqs$ah5@leps5.phys.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leps5.phys.psu.edu In article <1r5vqs$ah5@leps5.phys.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes: >I did manage to get one step farther; remembering that 386BSD wanted a parition >ID of 165, I used pfdisk to make a parition with that ID number. _then_ when >I installed, I didn't get that damn message from disklabel. Unfortunately, >now when I get to the point where I use install disk 2, I get the message >"panic: init failed" :-( Ok, my brain isn't quite working. I was inserting install disk 2 when I should have just kept the boot disk in the drive. Forgive me, I've been up all night :-) Anyway, I now have a working setup for NetBSD that's co-existing with DOS. Maybe the NetBSD gang could provide a copy of pfdisk or another fdisk-like utility? The FDISK that comes with MS-DOS isn't very suitable for playing around with this sort of stuff. --Ken