ditto on this. 

  o also always specify sectors not cylinders 
  o use the relative sector number from pfdisk as the offset in install.
    found that out last night about 2:00am.
  o don't use the whole disk, cut back a couple sectors
  o only pfdisk seems to work, linux/os2/nortutils fdisk couldn't
    get to work (doesn't mean they don't)
  o use bteasy as dos boot program


				dreez



> 
> (1) "pfdisk" says "geometry 1006 64 32"; NetBSD driver probe says
>     "1006 MB, 2700 cyl, 9 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sec".  Who is right?
> 
>     The answer was "Trust ``pfdisk''" and "Welcome to the wonderful world of
>     DOS and SCSI adapter geometry translation"  (-:  Whoa.  What a concept.
>     That took me rather aback  (-:
> 
>     I also asked if there would be a problem because the NetBSD partition
>     started on a head boundary, not a cylinder boundary.  Jeff Kreska pointed
>     out that with the 1006/64/32 geometry, it'll end up being on a cylinder -
>     albeit translated - boundary, so don't worry.  But I should make sure to
>     use sectors instead of cylinders when partitioning, to make sure I don't
>     screw myself (or trash DOS, which will make the owner really unhappy  (-: )
> 
>     OK, so I guess when the install asks me for cyl/head/sec, I better type
>     in "1006 64 32".  Good thing I didn't try it with the wrong numbers  (-: