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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS
Date: 5 Jul 1993 18:13:54 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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In article <20v4pv$c22@lorne.stir.ac.uk> bmb1@stirling.ac.uk (Mr Brian M Bullen) writes:
>In article <1uvm7l$mdt@lucy.ee.und.ac.za>,
>barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) writes:
>
>> This sort of problem happens when you try to install NetBSD in a
>> partition of a disk whose controller does geometry translation.
>> One option is to disable the geometry translation:
>> use the CMOS setup program to tell your BIOS about the true
>> geometry, and reformat everything.
>
>Unfortunately DOS has limits on the numbers it can work with -
>Can it really go above 17 sectors ?
Of course. DOS' limitations are BIOS' limitations only. I.e., 1024
cylinders, 64 spt and 16 heads.
>I have a 1251 cyl, 4 head, 41 sector NEC D3755 disk (IDE - 100 Meg)
>
>I used the CMOS to initialize as 625 cyl, 8 head, 41 sectors -- thinking
>the critical item would be sectors per track.
>
I've been booting for a time off an abt. 1700 cyl ESDI drive with 35 spt.
You only have to care for the DOS partition to be less than cyl 1024.
>I installed NETBSD after setting the partition ID to 165 on the second
>partition - on booting I got:
>
> warning: no swap space present (yet)
Do you have a properly labelled wd0b partition?
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