In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0501241315210.13619@cyc.cyc.ubzr.bet>, "Peter L. Pere
s" writes:
>
>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>> I think the proper type is "Linux ext2fs". You can also try to use mbrlabel
>> to generate the disklabel.
>
>mbrlabel did it. Thanks. However now I have something strange 
>(disklabel):
>
>  a:   4915953        63     4.2BSD   1024  8192    86   # (Cyl.    0*- 
>4876)
>  b:     88704   4919040       swap                      # (Cyl. 4880 - 
>4967)
>  c:     16384        63     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 
>16*)
>
>Note that c: is overlapping a:, yet I get no warning. Huh? I will 
>disable c: to prevent accidents. Any comments ?
>

An overlap is normal, but your is weird -- normally, the c partition is 
the entire NetBSD portion of the drive, but yours is too small.  You 
should also have a d partition that covers the entire drive, starting 
at offset 0.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'disable c:' (and it's c, not c:) -- you 
certainly shouldn't mount 

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb