On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:56:45PM -0400, Analysis and Solutions wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I've been poking around all day trying to find an answer to this question and
> have yet to find it.  Your assistnace will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I have a 40 gig IDE drive with the following partitions:

Is your machine recent enouth ?

>    1 g  Win95 Primary
>   15 g  Extended DOS composed of:
>         7 g  NT in NTFS
>        .4 g  NT Swap in NTFS
>         4 g  Downloaded Windows programs in FAT32
>         4 g  Downloaded NetBSD binary sets to install
>   22 g  Free space
> 
> The system presenly boots into the first partition, where Windows NT's ntldr
> / boot.ini is utilized to select the os/partition I want to boot.
> 
> I want to install NetBSD into the free space AND continue to use NT's boot
> selector.
> 
> I already downloaded the boot block from
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/nbsd0.bb and put that in my C:\ drive.  Plus
> I added
>    c:\nbsd0.bb="NetBSD (harddisk 0)"
> to my boot.ini file.
> 
> So, now onto my specific questions which came up while running sysinst:
> 
> * Boot Selector?
> Clearly no, since I want to use NT's selector.
> 
> * Normal Bootcode?
> Should I or shouldn't I?  What does this mean, anyway and where will it be
> installed if I answer yes?

This is the standart PC boot block. It's installed in the MBR. Should be safe
to install this one.

> 
> * Outside range BIOS can read.
>   Install bootcode into the Master Boot Record?
>   Will overwrite existing MBR.
> YEOW!  Sounds dangerous.  What to do???

I think this will install NetBSD's boot program in the MBR instead
of in it's partition. You don't want this in your case.

--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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