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Re: Installation questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danilo Almeida)
Fri Nov 13 17:32:32 1998
To: Andrew J Lynn <alynn@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:50:37 EST."
<199811132150.QAA02515@cephiro.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:32:25 EST
From: Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>
> I'm running NT right now, the PnPray support of which is very limited, so
> I can't figure out a decent way of changing the IRQ and port for the card.
The Intel 82557 is a PCI device. AFAIK, the BIOS or OS should figure
out how to allocate resources. In fact, I would not be surprised if
different OSes end up using different settings. (Would anyone care to
correct any errors in my udnerstanding?)
> Is it a matter of getting NetBSD's boot loader to install in
> NetBSD's partition and having NT's boot loader point to it, as I did
> in days of yore with Linux and OS/2?
No. Just use booteasy 1.7. Then, just install the NetBSD loader on
the NetBSD partition. To get booteasy 1.7, search for bteasy17.zip on
the net. Booteasy is a simple MBR replacement that lets you pick
which primary partition to boot from. It then loads the boot sector
for the partition you selected (which would then contain the NT
loader, the NetBSD loader, the DOS boot sector, or LILO, etc.). It's
about as simple as it gets.
- Danilo
