One of the things that I've wanted to do but have not yet done is to 
make pfdisk, the little program Gordon Ross wrote, work under NetBSD.  He
designed it to work with various flavors of Unix, including Unixware and
SCO, and I've always wondered why we've never ported it to run under
NetBSD.  I don't know if this is what you had in mind Perry, but an
interface like that one would go over well in my book.
-Brian

On Jan 7,  5:36pm, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
} Subject: Re: 1.3 is really annoying me now
} 
} Tom I Helbekkmo writes:
} > I've seen PCs that couldn't boot NetBSD in the "whole disk"
} > configuration.  (Olivetti and DEC come to mind.)  They insisted on
} > a "proper" DOS style partition table, a genuine DOS style MBR, and
} > NetBSD installed in a properly defined partition.
} 
} The easy way to create these is to boot a dos floppy and run fdisk
} from the dos floppy -- it will then create a "real" MBR for you.
} 
} I'm going to create a standalone fdisk utility for 1.4 that will make
} it possible to avoid booting DOS to do this.
} 
} Perry
>-- End of excerpt from "Perry E. Metzger"