Subject: Re: Installing to seperate partition
To: frank brierley <frank@brierley.id.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/13/2005 20:17:34
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:37:38PM +1000, frank brierley wrote:
> How do you tell the netbsd install software which partition to install 
> to?  There is an install to here flag settable in the fdisk portion of 
> the process but that didn't seem to send the install where it needed to go.

Are you talking about MBR partition or NetBSD's disklabel partition ?
For MBR partition, sysinst will install to the first partition of type
169, I think.
for disklabel partitions, it should be possible to say which parititons
to format and mount in the "use existing partitions" menu.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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