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Re: mounting a hard drive that doesn't have the NetBSD partition on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Sat Feb 10 19:31:04 1996
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: Vuong P Nguyen <vpnguyen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 1996 18:39:37 EST."
<199602102339.SAA07295@cowboys.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:27:04 EST
> Assuming you don't have something (like OS-BS) which uses the extra
> sectors in the boot track, you can do the following:
>
> 1) Use the NetBSD `fdisk' or DOS `pfdisk' to create a NetBSD
> partition in the MBR which spans the entire disk.
>
> 2) Save a copy of the MBR:
>
> dd if=/dev/rsd0d of=my-mbr bs=1b count=1
>
> 3) Use `disklabel' to create a NetBSD label with the DOS partition
> and whatnot. Answer `y' when it asks you if you want to `overwrite
> [a] disk with [a] DOS partition table'.
>
> 4) Put back the saved copy of the MBR:
>
> dd if=my-mbr of=/dev/rsd0d bs=1b count=1
>
> I am using a boot program, so does that completely invalidate these
> instructions? If they are right, could someone elaborate on step one?
That sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Get FIPS. Go to the web
archive of SIPB documentation and view the dvi file on installing NetBSD.
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