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.