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From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess)
Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD 0.8
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Date:  2 Aug 93 21:38:41 GMT
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osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:

>>
>>I'm having a hell of a time installing NetBSD 0.8 on my PC.  I'm trying to
>>install it on a Western Digital AC2340 hard drive (1010 cyl, 12 heads, 
>>55 sec/track, 512-byte sectors (? -- pretty sure but not positive)).  I 
>>want to keep my MS-DOS partition on the drive, but each time I try to install
>>NetBSD I trash this partition.  I tried reading the 386BSD/NetBSD FAQ on
>>this subject, but it doesn't really address my questions.

>You could be getting bit by the translation problem.  You want to turn
>it off if possible.


How can I do this, and what are the side effects?


Thanks

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu