>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 :-).

Nah, there shouldn't be any question about the order. Try asking mkfs to 
format a partition that's not NetBSD compatible and you should get an 
Alert Box.  Unless something got screwed up in the code it will only 
format NetBSD usable partitions, so you had to change it first.

-bob