Subject: Partitioning i386 SCSI drive for dual boot
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Derrick Hutchinson <derrick.hutchinson@reuters.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/23/1996 08:36:20
I was able to install NetBSD 1.1 on a Intel Express 50MHz EISA box, however I'm
having difficulty setting up the partitions properly.
I installed on a clean 1GB Maxtor SCSI drive that had been low-level formatted
with NO partition information on it--I did not use FDISK. It installed
successfully, but I was unable to use DOS's FDISk utility to partition the
remainder of the disk for Windows NT. FDISK reported that only about 2% of the
disk was used even though I had set up four UNIX partitions with the INSTALL
program which totalled almost half a gigabyte:
/ 32MB
swap 48MB
/usr 368MB
/var 32MB
/home 16MB
Is there a partitioning utility besides FDISK which I should be using? When I
try to use FDISK it does not give me information as to what the cylinders or
sectors are being used for the DOS partition (it reports in %) and NetBSD, of
course, wants to use cylinders or sectors.