Frederick,

I=B4ll try that way.
To be clear: I'm trying to do all, since it's my very first attempt with
NetBSD (and Unix generally) on a Syquest, because I think it would be
way way worse, intiating an installing process on a huge hd (4 GB) only
to discover then, something was done in the wrong way (chances are good
anyway, I know, but trying before beginning seriously is probably
better). So, all I'm doing now, is for practice! :))

Re: zapping partitions. Personally, to do *that*, I like HD SC Setup
more than FWB. If there aren't any cons, I could use (the hacked version
of) HD SC Setup. The only reason I used FWB on the Mac was, it allowed
you to change the blocksize allowing in this way better use of storage
on large partitions (but that's an ante-HFS+ problem; a format size I do
not use, because I want to stay compatible with Prodos 8 and 16). Btw,
is HFS+ a problem in some way?

Thanks again for your patience & best regards,

Ulrich
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>Von: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
>An: Ulrich Hausmann <ulrich.hausmann@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
>Cc: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>, port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Betreff: Re: Installation problem
>Datum: Sam, 5. Sep 1998 12:40 Uhr
>

>On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:

>> . . .(snip) . . .

>
>The IDE partition is an actual partition (as is the partition map
>itself!). Apple's partitioning system is elegant, extensible, and wholly
>incompatible with any one else's. (Like much of what they do!) A simple
>solution, for you, might  be to use Mkfs to zap the IDE partition into a
>swap partition. I believe that's possible. If not, perhaps FWB tools will
>let you delete the IDE driver, and then you can convert the resulting
>"Apple Free" partition to a swap. FWB is also supposed to be able to make
>the correct type for NetBSD directly, but I find it easy enough to use
>Mkfs for that.
>
>I'm assuming that you don't have a swap because you have, like 128M or
>something. If that's not the case, even a medium swap, of say 16M, could
>make your system more stable. In any case, I would use Mkfs to rebuild the
>filesystem and reinstall.
>
>If you really want to try to salvage the existing filesystem, for
>"practice", perhaps, use the installer to "create device files", and then
>"force creation of new fstab." This after you've made your swap partition.
>Then I would boot into single-user mode, run "fsck -fy" (or "fsck_ffs -b
>32" as Bill Studenmund pointed out), until there were no more errors, and
>then assess the damage.
>
>