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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail From: brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD to coexist with DOS. Date: 23 Apr 1993 14:54:37 -0700 Organization: Antarctic Support Associates Lines: 14 Message-ID: <1r9oit$f5h@network.ucsd.edu> References: <1627@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <1993Apr23.025247.17483@zip.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: network.ucsd.edu In article <1993Apr23.025247.17483@zip.eecs.umich.edu> khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) writes: >I was lucky I already had a DOS partition created by fdisk, another >partition created by tinyBSD, and I could get the size/offset and disk >geometry from 386BSD before loading NetBSD. > >The rest of the NetBSD setup process is great. I agree thoroughly with the last comment. After I figured out the problems with installing NetBSD on its own partition, and noticed I still had a few hairs left on my head, what ended up on the computer was a really slick version of 386BSD. Many thanks to everyone who put this together. Brent