When I first partitioned my hard drive for *BSD I used FWD too.  But a
teacher/helper/friend, who had installed *BSD successfully on a quadra
700 before, told me that Apple HD SC setup was the easiest and that the
programs (mkfs and the installer) like that partitioner very well.  Now I
don't know how that would help you, except I would recommend using Apple
HD SC Setup.

						Sincerely,
						Rod Myrup
						(g01s61)
						:-)

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Tim Bessie <tbessie@eci.net> wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone had any problems using FWB Hard Disk Toolkit
> >to create partitions for NetBSD?  I've successfully used
> >Apple's HD utility (the standard one), but when I use FWB's
> >(following the directions for creating an A/UX partition --
> >well, the README for FWB HDT says it's for MkLinux), then
> >run Mkfs (latest version), the Installer complains that
> >it can't find a NetBSD partition.
> >
> This sounds a lot like FWB isn't writing the expected flags into the 
> partition that NetBSD is looking for.  Mkfs doesn't look for them, but 
> both the Installer and the Kernel do.
> 
> >Any suggestions?  I know I can just create a MacOS partition
> >(or even one of these non-working A/UX partitions) and tell
> >Mkfs to create a NetBSD partition, but I'd like the think the
> >FWB software worked as advertised.
> >
> You can use Mkfs to change the A/UX partition into a NetBSD partition.  
> All this will do is change the name field in the Partition Map entry and 
> write the proper flags into the Partition for the Installer and Kernel.
> 
> >Incidentally, when I create an A/UX partition with FWB, then
> >choose "CHANGE" within Mkfs, Mkfs identifies the partition
> >as "Apple Free", NOT Unix.  D'ya think FWB is not writing some
> >soft of identifying integer someplace in the partition map?
> 
> This sounds like a screw up on my part. FWB is obviously writing enough 
> information for Mkfs to detect it's an Apple type partition, but Mkfs 
> isn't recognizing the additional information to detect it's an A/UX 
> variety.  This is probably caused by FWB not writing the partition flags 
> described above.
> 
> -bob
> 
> 
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