On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 06:48:05AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> #  a: Start at sector 63, end at sector 6281856, type 4.2BSD
> #  c: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
> #  d: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
> #  
> 
> This would be the correct way to do things..
> 
> Just a question of curiosity to everyone out there.. Why do you offset 63
> sectors into the disk?  I've never done that on any of my machines.. and it
> works just peachy..

For me, it was an evil BIOS. For a old working one, no offset is necessary.

Jukka Marin wrote:
> 
> Where does the disklabel get stored if the first real partition starts
> at sector 0?  (Sure I'm clueless, that's why I'm asking :-)

AFAIK, at the beginning of the NetBSD partition, so at sector 0.

(I'm also clueless!)

Cheers,

Patrick