>> >In the last week I acquired a Quantum Maverick 540MB HD which I
>> >partitioned into two equal MacOS partitions using FWB HD Tool Kit.  I
>> >then ran mkfs 1.4 on the partitions to change them to NetBSD usr
>> >filesystems and then formatted them. (Did I do this backwards?) I
>> >"cpout"'d my fstab and changed it to reflect the two new partitions.
>> >Specifically, my old fstab read:
>> 
>> 1. You really should have created A/UX partitions, not MacOS partitions.
>> 2. mkfs does the formatting, provided that the disk is already partitioned.
>> Don't format it again.
>
>Sorry this is wrong.  Using Mkfs 1.4, you don't need to create A/UX 
>partitions.  You can simply create MacOS partitions (or whatever kind you 
>want) and then use Mkfs to properly set them up for use with NetBSD.


That was the assumption I was working under.  (That mkfs 1.4 could do 
it.)  One of the buttons in mkfs is labelled "Change"; the other 
"Format".  Of course, the question remains in which order they should be 
clicked :-).

>As for formatting, I believe that he meant that he formatted using Mkfs 
>1.4, not that he reformatted with a MacOS formatter.

I originally formatted using FWD HD Tool Kit.  I formatted and 
partitioned the disk for two equally-sized MAc partitions, and then used 
mkfs 1.4 to change and reformat both partitions.

Cheers,

Sean.


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