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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 15:45:17 -0400
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In article <1r6r8u$5np@network.ucsd.edu> brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones) writes:
>If you don't have a copy of PFDISK, or something similiar for creating
>the partition with ID 165, you can just leave the partition created by
>the "tiny 386bsd" installation floppy, and then install with the NetBSD
>flippies over top of the initial 386bsd stuff.  When you do this, you
>will also not receive the question that was left out of the installation
>instructions.  Both systems are now happily co-existing on my machine.

Yeah, but that install program only lets you make a partition of 40Mb or
greater.  I only wanted a 25Mb parition, for various complicated reasons.

BTW - what other utilities besides PFDISK let you create paritions with
user-specified ID's?

--Ken