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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!centauri From: centauri@peso.cs.tu-berlin.de (centauri) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Pfdisk question Date: 24 Jan 94 17:24:59 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2i109d$7qq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <pomonaCJyLBz.3E3@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: peso.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: pomona@netcom.com's message of Fri, 21 Jan 1994 02:52:46 GMT I'm a little confused on setting up with the pfdisk prog...it doesn't seem to have a setting for BSD (Net or Free). [...] Well unless I didn't get you wrong : Let's assume you only have one IDE-harddrive. You start pfdisk from DOS with '0' as parameter for your drive. Now you can get a list of the partitions with the command 'L'. If you only have one DOS-partition on the drive, then it'll tell you it's number (1), it's ID (?), start and end-cylinder, it's size and the name of the part. Now you make a new partition by entering : 2 165 <start> <end> <name> Now you should have a new partition of your favorite size. The 165 makes it a NetBSD-partition. By entering 'L' once again, you'll be told the start-offset and the number of sectors which are included in the new partition. You should note this numbers, since you'll need them later. After this procedure you should quit pfdisk, boot your system with the NetBSD-bootdisk and install your system. -) cu Christian -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Schroeder, TU-Berlin, FB13 InterNet : centauri@cs.tu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Schroeder, TU-Berlin, FB13 InterNet : centauri@cs.tu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------