Martin,

If you are brave (or have a backup :-), you could use fdisk to turn the
first NetBSD partition into a FAT-32 partition type (11). DO NOT ATTEMPT
to use it at all. We are only hiding it from 'sysinst' and will restore it
after the installation of the second instance of NetBSD. You should note
the value of the partition type for NetBSD (169).

Note: What I have just suggested is 'hacking' in the original sense. As
long as nothing tried to access the fake DOS partition, all should be
well. The sysinst program will think it is another OS and ignore it.

Warning: There is a potential for disaster here. Be sure you understand
what you are doing before you proceed.

Does anyone know of a reason why this may not work?

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Martin Ammermueller wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:43:31AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > On the other hand, if one can boot far enough into a disk, one could split
> > a large enough disk into two 'fdisk' partitions and make two complete and
> > separate installations. Alternately, one could split it into three using
> > the first two for NetBSD installations and the third for user files.
>
> That's what I want. Two totally independend NetBSD installations. And
> that's impossible with "sysinst", because it selects always the first
> fdisk partition.

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