* When computing disk geometry, remember that cylinders are numbered
starting with zero and sectors are numbered starting with 1.

* If you're not sharing a disk between DOS and NetBSD, then just run the
install straight up and tell it that you want the whole disk, giving it
the right number of cylinders, sectors, and heads for your drive.

* If you're sharing a disk between DOS and NetBSD, be quite careful.
You're probably best off keeping the DOS partition at the "Front" of the
disk.  [NOTE: If your disk uses geometry translation under DOS (happens
with big disks on some disk controllers), you must tell NetBSD the
_translated_ geometry parameters when installing]

	If you already have DOS installed, run "fdisk" and look at the
	disk partition information.  If there is no space unallocated,
	you can either repartition and reinstall DOS and then NetBSD, or
	you can run the "FIPS" program to change the size of the
	partition to make room for a new partition at the end.  NOTE:
	You need to run a defragmenter program before running FIPS, to
	move all the DOS data to the front of the partition.  FIPS comes
	with a great README file and step-by-step directions.  I
	recently did it on a laptop with no troubles.  It speaks about
	Linux, but the concepts are exactly the same.

In the NetBSD install process, just after the "point of no return" it
will write a partition table to the hard disk.  WARNING: if it spits out
"overwriting disk with DOS partition table", DO NOT SAY yes.  If it says
this, you've told NetBSD to use a different section of disk than the DOS
MBR partition table says it should use, or your sectors/tracks/cylinders
settings don't match.  Saying "yes" will render the DOS partition
unusable, and may result in data loss.

* All the boot tools discussed here are findable under
/afs/sipb/project/netbsd/i386/utils/* .  You can use the "unzip" program
in the SIPB locker to uncompress the zip files, and then copy the output
onto a DOS floppy diskette using the "mtools" programs in the consult
locker.

* os-bs135.exe: self extracting archive.  Includes a README file which
should be sufficient.  The boot selector sets a sticky default boot
O/S.  You can select an O/S from a list at boot-time.  You choose the
text for the O/S selection list.

* os-bs-2.0beta8.exe: beta-test 2.0 (works fine--I've used it daily).
wizzy boot-time menu, takes 4 extra blocks on disk (if DOS is your first
partition, this is not a problem--those sectors are unused).  Can boot
directly from a second disk drive (although your NetBSD boot blocks will
need modification to support this if you're switching controller types,
such as IDE for BIOS drive 0, SCSI for BIOS drive 1--ask
<jtkohl@mit.edu> for details.)  Otherwise quite similar to os-bs135.exe.

* bteasy14.zip: Booteasy.  Similar to os-bs135, except: It chooses the
O/S selection menu text (it interprets the system ID field in the DOS
partition table); when you select an O/S it becomes the default for the
next boot.  It can install itself on drives 0 and 1, and transfer boot
to the second drive.  Again, your NetBSD boot blocks may need tweaking
to successfully boot from a second BIOS drive.

* deinstall:  Most of these systems have a deinstall option.  Read their
documentation.  If all else fails, you can restore the DOS master boot
record with fdisk/mbr (this will retain the current partition table).

