port-mac68k: Re: Does mkfs trash other partitions?

Subject: Re: Does mkfs trash other partitions?
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/09/1996 00:03:54

> Great!  But beware, the Installer will trash the /usr partition if you
> try to mount it within the Installer.  Newfs creates a file system
> whose format the Installer doesn't fully understand.

Note, though, that the netbsd installation files are gzipped tar files
so you can extract them under a running NetBSD system with a bit of care
and 'tar zxpf comp.tar.gz' or 'tar zxpf comp11' or whatever.

-allen

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