Subject: Re: mkfs 1.43 doesn't see all of my partitions
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/23/1997 21:15:05
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Bob Nestor wrote:
> Try creating all MacOS partitions of the sizes you want.  THen use Mkfs 
> to convert them into BSD partitions of the type you need.  I suspect that 
> the only partition Mkfs won't see will be the last one on the volume when 
> you do it this way.  If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll try and 
> put together a debug version of Mkfs so we can find out what's going on.

Well, I've already gotten everything partitioned, and NetBSD's mostly
reinstalled now (just have to tweak a couple of rc files and stuff). Your
suggestion sounds like it'd work though... but why doesn't mkfs see the
last partition?
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