Hey guys

Im a fairly inexperienced *nix style os user. I've played around with
linux in the past but this is my first time with a bsd.

My computor config is as follows

hd1 20 gig windows xp partition
hd2 40 gig partition + 40 gig ntfs partition

Now Ive tried to install nbsd 2 on the first 40 gig partition on the
first 40 gig partition in the second harddisk.

My main problem is that i can not get nbsd to boot

I noticed that during installation that I was unable to set the netbsd
partition to be active ie when partitioning in systinst, when i try to
gptp the 'e' field to set it to be active, the highlighted part skips
down to 'f'. Im not sure if this had something to do with it. BTW I
said yes to the boot selector.

Now after installation nbsd didnt boot. i assumed that it maybe
because that the boot selector was installed on the superblock of the
second hardrive instead of the actual mbr (something slackware users
would be fimilar with).

I decided to use the NT boot selector as a method of booting netbsd. I
did the following

1) boot into linux floppy distro
2) after the linux distro was loaded into ram inserted a blank floppy
3) fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440
4) mkdosfs -v /dev/fd0u1440
5) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
6) dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/floppy/nbsd.bb bs=1 count =512
7) reboot into windows xp
8) copy nbsd.bb into c drive
9) editing boot.ini

When i try booting into nbsd this way, windows just gives me an error
and restarts.

Now i decide that i will just use the nbsd install disk the install
the boot selector in the actual mbr. i went through the following
steps

1) back up my current mbr ie "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/mbr bs=1 count =512"
2) reboot with the netbsd cd
3) exit sysinst and enter into a shell
4) fdisk -B wd1
5) follow the promots

that didnt work neither so i tried doing
fdisk -B wd0 for step 4

still, windows xp booted. I tried installing GAG but that couldnt
recognise the nbsd partition. i tried to get GAG to just boot the
second harddrive and that didnt work either.

I dont know what Im doing wrong. Is it something with making the
partition active? does nbsd not work on a second harddrive etc?

Can anyone offer some advice? Thanks