, <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/28/1999 10:17:27
Hello Bill, how are you to day?
Me i'm fine.
Thousand of thank's to you for your help.
I have solved the problem by the same way the last night.
My solution was to make a 'fdisk wd0' command to see where
was my DOS partition.
The second command was 'disklabel -i wd0' and add a partition 'f'.
The partition begin at 6552 and the size is 65520.
The unit in use was effectivly in sectors.
Then, I mount my partition by 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd0f /mnt2.
At this point, I see my set directory on my MSDOS disk.
All is riht for now.
Than's you again.
Bye.
Richard from PARIS in FRANCE.
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>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:32:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
>Reply-To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
>To: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@fr.adp.com>
>cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: Install 1.4.1 on a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33 C
>
>Nicely detailed! Unfortunatly you ran into some problems with sysinst.
>
>You said the kern.tgz, etc files are on your msdos partition? I'm going to
>assume so, and suggest a way to fix things up from this point.
>
>Unfortunatly you have to repeat the parts of the install you did. I'll
>show you where you need to make different answers.
>
>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Richard PLOIX wrote:
>
>> > -> partition table in sec.
>> > No start(meg) Size(meg) End(meg) Kind
> ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
>Did it really do that? Oops!
>
>> > 0 6552 65520 72072 Primary DOS 16-bit FAT > 32 MB
>> > 1 72072 615888 687960 NetBSD
>> > 2 52 6500 6552 unknow
>> > 3 unused
>
>Remember the start & size of your msdos partition: 6552, 65520.
>
>> >I say standard and return
>> > -> BSD-disklabel partition as (size and offset in meg)
>
>I'd suggest doing it in sectors. Megabyte mode had some strange rounding
>issues. Just remember that a sector is 1/2 a K. So 2048 sectors = a
>megabyte. 36 MB = 73728 and 33 MB = 67584 sectors.
>
>> > id size offset end fstype bsize fsize mountpoint
>> > a 36 35 71 4.2BSD 8192 1024 /
>> > b 33 72 104 swap
>> > c 300 35 335 unused
>> > d 336 0 335 unused
>> > e 230 105 335 4.2BSD 8192 1024 /usr
>> > Partitons are ok?
>> >I say yes and return
>
>Say no. Add an "f" partition, start 6552, size 65520 and type MS-DOS.
>
>Then say yes when it asks about partitions being ok.
>
>> > -> name for netbsd disk 5mywd0]: return
>> > last chance. return
>> > newfs /dev/rwd0a
>> > ---------------e
>> > the next step is to fetch and unpack the distribution sets.
>> >I say yes and return
>> >I select custom installation kern, base, etc
>> > -> do you want to see the files during extracting? no
>> >I select floppy medium
>
>At this point you want to select the "unmounted fs" option.
>
>You want to say "msdos" for Filesystem, and "wd0f" for device (it's the
>one we added above). If the files aren't in the top level of the dos
>drive, set the path to them in the Directory setting. Remember that UNIX
>uses "/" to seperate file names while windos uses "\". So a windows path
>of "Program Files\Downloads" would be "Program Files/Downloads" for UNIX.
>
>I think it should just work now.
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill
>
>
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