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Re: NetBSD installation help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 31 01:03:16 1995
To: farnaz@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:56:49."
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 01:05:13 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I tried to rerun the installation so that I could pick another disk
> or paritition but it keeps saying that it has found a NetBSD
> partition already and it is the one that is not big enough. How do
> I make it give me the different options again?
Use DOS fdisk or some such to delete the small NetBSD partition; then
you should see a list. In the future, our partition-making script
should probably ignore anything less than 10MB as irrelevant.
Regardless, the installation procedure should have chosen the largest
available space as the default partition, so there's probably
something wrong if it offered you such a small partition as a default.
You should double-check the partition table on your second disk to
make sure it has a bunch of empty space at the end.
> Note: When it asked about which disk/paritition I initially wanted
> to install to, the other set of disks had numbers like -1 and 1 so I
> didn't think that they were the right ones. Maybe it was because I
> had deleted the partition (I don't know)
The "-1" entries you see are due to a harmless bug I introduced
recently; just ignore them. Sorry about that.
