On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Mat=EDas Giovannini wrote:

> is there any way to partition and format a new disk under netbsd68k?
> I've tried and tried, read the FAQs; and browsing the old list messages,
> I found something to the effect that disklabel doesn't quite work. I
> can't sync the kernel labels with the disk (i.e., physical) labels; and
> newfs insists on reading the kernel partition table.
> Should I do it on the MacOS side, or is anything that I'm missing?

Yes, mostly.

Alternatively, you can try to build pdisk
<ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/wip/pdisk/980218/>,
and see how that works.

Any change you make to the partition table from within NetBSD will
show up in the disklabel immediately, as there's no in-kernel
disklabel to sync with.