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Re: using disklabel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ericding@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 27 11:51:39 1995

From: ericding@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:51:18 GMT
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU

Hi Greg,

> dosdisk:\
>         :dt=ST506:ty=winchester:nc#CYL:nt#TRACKS:ns#SETORS:se#512:\
>         :pa#SIZE:oa#OFFSET:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
>         :pc#SIZE:oc#OFFSET
...
> and SIZE and OFFSET are the size and offset of the NetBSD partition in
> sectors.

Two more questions... first, do I need an MS-DOS entry in the disktab?  
Secondly, how do I find out the size and offsets of the partitions on the 
disk in sectors?

Thanks again,
Eric

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