On Aug 17,  1:15pm, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
>Space Case writes:
>> that'll have room for his games and for NetBSD, what size and order
>> should I make the partitions?  I figure, on a 5-6GB drive, having a
>> 2GB Win partition and root/swap/usr for NetBSD...
>The only thing to worry about is to make sure that you deal reasonably
>with the fact that many PC BIOSes can't deal with any blocks past a
>certain point because of old BIOS limits, and unfortunately our boot
>blocks use the BIOS to load the kernel...

So, would something like this work?

1.  100MB  NetBSD root
2.  100MB  NetBSD swap
3.  3GB    Win/DOS
4.  rest   NetBSD usr

Thanks,
~Steve

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