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NOTE: If you wish to install NetBSD on your whole disk, i.e. you do
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not want DOS or any other operating system to reside on your hard
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disk, you can skip this section and go on to the section that
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describes installation, below. If you're upgrading your system from a
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previous release of NetBSD, you shouldn't have proceeded directly to
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the section about upgrading; you need none of the information
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presented here.
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First and foremost, before beginning the installation process, MAKE
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SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP of any data on your hard disk that you
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wish to keep. Repartitioning your hard disk is an excellent way to
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destroy important data.
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Second, if you are using a disk controller which supports disk
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geometry translation, be sure to use the same parameters for NetBSD as
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for DOS or the other operating systems installed on your disk. If you
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do not, it will be much harder to make NetBSD properly coexist with
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them.
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Third, use the DOS "fdisk" program or another partition editor to
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repartition your hard disk. Create a partition of at least 40M in
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size, and note its starting offset and its length (preferably in units
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of disk sectors or cylinders). You will need that information when
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installing NetBSD (and if the offset and length are not in those
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units, you will have to convert them). Once you have created the new
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NetBSD partition, mark it as having a partition type of 0xA5 (265, in
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decimal). If you used "fdisk" to partition your disk, you will
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probably have to use a different partition editor to mark the
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partition with the correct type.
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Finally, do whatever is necessary to restore order to the partition
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you took space away from. If it was a DOS partition, you probably
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will need to use "format" to create a new file system on it, and then
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restore your important files from your backups. Other operating
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systems will have different needs; most will need to reformat the
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partition, and if it was their "main" partition, will probably need
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to be reinstalled.
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Your hard disk is now prepared to have NetBSD installed on it, and
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you should proceed with the installation instructions.
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