Ken,

thanks a lot for all that suggestions. I'll try . . .

I looked a bit around, but I didn't find a good synoptic overview on how
you should organize your partitions for use with NetBSD. Could you point
me to some?

Re: FWB
On the Mac side FWB (the full version) is by far the most customizable
formatter. And, seems, also those does the most efficient (for MacOS)
installation. According to Frederick, that isn't the case regard NetBSD
. . .

Best regards, Ulrich

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>Von: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
>An: ulrich.hausmann@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de
>Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Betreff: Re: Installation problem
>Datum: Sam, 5. Sep 1998 12:35 Uhr
>

>On Sat, 05 Sep 1998 11:35:36 +0200, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>> when I booted in single user mode, I didn't get that error msg. But
>> looking in /dev/, obviously, sd1a is still missing. Now, the files there
>> (in /dev/) are that kinds of links (aliases or so?) to real pyhsical
>> partitions? And if so, isn't it possible to rebuild one "by hand"?
>> Especially since there are, as I saw two program files (or scripts?)
>> MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local.
>
>For now, booting into single-user mode and doing:
>
> mount -u /; cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV sd1
>
>should make the device files sd1[a-g] and rsd1[a-g].  Later you should
>read makedev(8) man page but it may not be installed on your system.
>
> . . . (snip) . . . 
>
>BTW, what does your /etc/fstab say?
>
> . . . (snip) . . . 
> 
>I don't think it'll help you solve the problem at hand much, but why
>don't you have a swap partition?  Is there another drive with a swap
>partition on it?  If not, that could become a source of another
>problem later on...
>
> . . . (snip) . . . 
>
>> It's a bit a pity, FWB is so odd for NetBSD, since OTOH the full
>> version is really nice for the Mac side (good recover tools and many
>> options to optimize the format - differently from Silverlining and HD SC
>> Setup).
>
>Not sure what you mean.
>
> . . . (snip) . . . 
>
>Ken
>