Hi.

I'm probably in over my head, but I'd appreciate any pointers to finish
installing NetBSD.  First let me say, pbsdboot.exe works great!

I'm without a network connection to my z50 but I was able to repartition my
Kingston CF/96 using SanDisk's Imagemate on Win98SE and FIPS
(http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/ - FIPS is a program for
non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions). I made two partitions:
    1) FAT 22 MB
    2) unused (~77)

I loaded the ms-dos portion with just enough to boot and install NetBSD:
    1) pbsdboot.exe
    2) NetBSD
    3) base.tgz
    4) etc.tgz
    5) kern.tgz
About 22MB

Then I removed the CF/96 from Win98 and inserted it in the z50, (declining
to format the 2nd partition), copied the pbsdboot.exe to the z50 (using
right-click|Send to 'My Documents') and ran it.

I went through the "a. Install NetBSD to hard disk". Here's what I saw (so
far so good):

... wd0 ...
pcmcia1: card irq 3
cylinders [978]: 978
heads [6]: 6
sectors [32]: 32
... a: use part of disk...

Edit your DOS partition table...

And I end up with:

0:    0    23    23    DOS FAT16, <32M
1:    22    70    92    NetBSD
2:                            unused
3:                            unused

I select "Custom" for disklabel'ing....

Root partition size? [69]: 64
Swap partition size? [5}: 5

And I get:

a:    63    22    85    4.2BSD    8192    1024    /
b:    5    86    90    swap
c:    69    22    90    unused
d:    91    0    90    unused

Please enter a name...[mydisk]: mydisk

Then /sbin/newfs runs on /dev/rwd0a successfully and I get:
"...fetch and unpack the distribution filesets..."

I only select Kernl, Base, System.

And now I choose where these are located...

This is where I lose it. No network (goodbye FTP/NFS)

And I cannot seem to use "unmounted fs" or "local dir"

When I go into the shell via the utility menu I run fdisk and get:

# fdisk
pcmcia1: card irq 3
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 978 heads: 6 sectors/track: 32 (192 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 978 heads: 6 sectors/track: 32 (192 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 4 (Primary DOS with 16 bit FAT <32M)
    start 32, size 45664 (22 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder   0, head  1, sector 1
        end: cylinder 237, head 5, sector 32
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 45696, size 142080 (69 MB), flag 0x0
        beg cylinder 238, head 0, sector 1
        end: cylinder 977, head 5, sector 32
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
#

At this point I'm confused. How do I access the DOS partition? That's where
my distribution sets are.

Thanks for you help....


Robert Taylor