Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

[Chris Pinnock <chris_pinnock%mac.com@localhost>]

> On 22 Aug 2022, at 15:19, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> So what goes wrong is not at the file system level, but MBR and disklabel
> handling. I dimly recall the disklabel moved into the type 169 MBR partition
> a long time ago - I bet 4.0 was before that change and this is what
> now causes the broken wedge auto-detection.
> 

Yes believe this is ancient history. NetBSD 1.0 would install with a 169 partition. IIRC before 1.0 you might have ended up with a partition ID of 165. It needed to be changed for NetBSD 1.2 to work (I think). 

C