On Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:30:16 -0600 (CST)  scottr@plexus.com wrote:
> 
> I believe -- but I haven't tested this theory for lack of available 
> machines at the moment -- that *this* is the critical step.  I seem to 
> recall trashing a DOS partition a couple months back when I tried to 
> install NetBSD without marking the NetBSD partition active before booting 
> from the install floppies.

I've installed NetBSD v1.1 without doing this and I had no problem.  DOS
partition was marked as active and created with DOS's FDISK and the 
NetBSD partition was created with pfdisk under DOS.  No problems...