I got netbooting working (by tossing out the NeXT bootpd and using ISC's  
dhcpd), but now I'm having trouble getting the disk partitioned and  
labeled.

Actually, I think I got it partitioned how I want it, but I can't figure  
out how to get it to actually write the disklabel.

Here's what fdisk thinks the partition map is:
    bsdqube# fdisk
    wd0: no disk label
    NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
    cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

    BIOS disk geometry:
    cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

    Partition table:
    0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
	start 1, size 131039 (63 MB), flag 0x0
	    beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  2
	    end: cylinder  129, head  15, sector 63
    1: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
	start 131040, size 263088 (128 MB), flag 0x0
	    beg: cylinder  130, head   0, sector  1
	    end: cylinder  390, head  15, sector 63
    2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
	start 394128, size 33356736 (16287 MB), flag 0x0
	    beg: cylinder  391, head   0, sector  1
	    end: cylinder 1022, head  15, sector 63
    3: <UNUSED>
    bsdqube#

And here's the disklabel I'm trying to set:
    bsdqube# ls
    boot.tar  x
    bsdqube# cat x
    # /dev/rwd0d:
    type: ESDI
    disk: Maxtor 91728D8
    label: fictitious
    flags:
    bytes/sector: 512
    sectors/track: 63
    tracks/cylinder: 16
    sectors/cylinder: 1008
    cylinders: 16383
    total sectors: 33750864
    rpm: 3600
    interleave: 1
    trackskew: 0
    cylinderskew: 0
    headswitch: 0           # microseconds
    track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
    drivedata: 0

    7 partitions:
    #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
      d: 33700864        0     unused        0     0    # (Cyl.0 - 33482)
      e:   131039        1 Linux Ext2        0     0    # (Cyl. 0*- 129)
      f:   263088   131040       swap                   # (Cyl. 130 - 390)
      a: 33306730   394128 Linux Ext2        0     0    # (Cyl. 391-33482)

But it never seems to want to actually write it to disk...
    bsdqube# disklabel -r -R wd0 x
    wd0: no disk label
    May 15 01:56:12 bsdqube /netbsd: wd0: no disk label
    NetBSD slice at 394128, partition C at 0
    Write outside MBR partition? [n]: y
    bsdqube# disklabel -r wd0
    wd0: no disk label
    disklabel: no disklabel
    May 15 01:56:43 bsdqube /netbsd: wd0: no disk label
    bsdqube#

Robert

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