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Hi Folks:

Spent much of yesterday trying to find an answer to this question and have
yet to find it.  Your assistnace will be greatly appreciated.

I have a 40 gig IDE drive with the following partitions:
   1 g  Win95 Primary
  15 g  Extended DOS composed of:
        7 g  NT in NTFS
       .4 g  NT Swap in NTFS
        4 g  Downloaded Windows programs in FAT32
        4 g  Downloaded NetBSD binary sets to install
  22 g  Free space

The system presenly boots into the first partition, where Windows NT's
ntldr / boot.ini is utilized to select the os/partition I want to boot.

I want to install NetBSD into the free space AND continue to use NT's boot
selector.

I already downloaded the boot block from
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/nbsd0.bb and put that in my C:\ drive.  
Plus I added
   c:\nbsd0.bb="NetBSD (harddisk 0)"
to my boot.ini file.

So, now onto my specific questions which came up while running sysinst:

* Boot Selector?
Clearly no, since I want to use NT's selector.

* Normal Bootcode?
Should I or shouldn't I?  What does this mean, anyway and where will it be
installed if I answer yes?

* Outside range BIOS can read.
  Install bootcode into the Master Boot Record?
  Will overwrite existing MBR.
YEOW!  Sounds dangerous.  What to do???

In addition, if you know of any other things I need to look out for,
please do let me know.

Many thanks,

--Dan

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Howdy:

In addition to posting my initial query here, I posted to the NetBSD i386
port mailing list.  I got a reply to my question there and am conveying my
reply to that here in order to assist people in future archval searches...

Tip to folks here, don't use the boot block, nbsd0.bb, downloaded from the
internet.  Create the boot block yourself.  Boot into NetBSD on your hard
drive via your install floppy, then create the boot block from there.

   dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/95/nbsd0.bb count=1 bs=512
                        ^^
                        ||
Insert the mount point of your DOS C:\ partition here.

This assumes you've already created a working disklabel for that drive and
have mounted it.

Quote:> > So, now onto my specific questions which came up while running
> > sysinst:

> > * Boot Selector?
> > Clearly no, since I want to use NT's selector.

> > * Normal Bootcode?
> > Should I or shouldn't I?  What does this mean, anyway and where will
> > it be installed if I answer yes?

> This is the standart PC boot block. It's installed in the MBR. Should be
> safe to install this one.

Worked fine.

Quote:> > * Outside range BIOS can read.
> >   Install bootcode into the Master Boot Record?
> >   Will overwrite existing MBR.
> > YEOW!  Sounds dangerous.  What to do???

> I think this will install NetBSD's boot program in the MBR instead
> of in it's partition. You don't want this in your case.

During the install this question didn't come up this time.  Guess
answering yes to the previous question made it unnecessary.

Many thanks,

--Dan
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