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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!chris Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD - Installation Message-ID: <1993Jun13.104859.11213@actrix.gen.nz> From: chris@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Double) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 10:48:59 GMT References: <1993Jun13.045617.29399@actrix.gen.nz> <739960152snz@triton.demon.co.uk> Organization: Actrix Information Exchange Lines: 27 In article <739960152snz@triton.demon.co.uk> Paul@triton.demon.co.uk writes: > Chris, > maybe too obvious, but after you installed Netbsd, did you boot with a dos > floppy with fdisk on ? You need to do that to use fdisk to set the dos > partition back to active, or else it will always boot Netbsd. > Your partitions are probably Ok, just prepare a dos boot floppy and fdisk > to change partitions. The other option is to install a boot switcher that > ]will ask you at boot time which partition to boot. There are a couple of PD > ones around although the press they get seems variable.... Thanks for the reply. I had tried fdisk from DOS and it was showing incorrect partition information. I've managed to fix the problem...by reading the FAQ! Gosh, what a novel concept :). I ftp'd PFDISK and used this to mark the netbsd partition as '165' and to get the correct offset and size. I'm inclined to think that the offset/size I was calculating (from DRDOS 6.0 FDisk) was incorrect. Install went beautifully after this. Thanks. Regards, Chris Double. chris@actrix.gen.nz