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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!valo From: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS ReplyTo: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman) Organization: Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 07:10:00 GMT Message-ID: <C88p8p.2Hy@cvt.stuba.cs> References: <1ul119$iof@nz12.rz.unikarlsruhe.de> Sender: news@cvt.stuba.cs (NetNews administrator) Lines: 28 In article <1ul119$iof@nz12.rz.unikarlsruhe.de>, bertram@ifib1.ifib.unikarlsruhe.de (Bertram Barth) writes: |> |> After having the same problems (lost DOSpartition after installing |> NetBSD) the following worked: |> created bootable DOSpartition with DOSfdisk |> created extended DOSpartition (which was intended to become the |> NetBSDpartition) also with DOSfdisk |> used a diskeditor to edit partitiontable and changed "05" (extended DOS) |> to "A5" (386BSD/NetBSD) |> ==> no problems with installing NetBSD into the "faked" partition, |> no problems with the existing/bootable DOSpartition. |> |> hope that helps (worked at least for me) |> bertram |> |> BTW. something like this is also mentioned in the FAQ ;) OK, this is approximately what I done , I use pfdisk to create my partitions. After installing the files from install 1 floppy to my NetBSD partition, my partitions was untouched and I was happy ... But when I rebooted the machine from kernel floppy and wanted to copy a kernel, fsck said: wd0 : can't find disk label (no disk label). Seems I'm in trouble again... Regards Roman.