On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Hauke Fath wrote:

> No, rather than picking the most limited and braindead partitioning scheme
> (Wintel mbr) NetBSD/* should support native disklabels for BSD only disks.
> It would be nice if I could take a BSD disk from mac68k to sparc to i386
> and simply write to it instead of having to go via FAT 8.3 or tarring to
> the raw device.

That _would_ be nice.

> And why bother with a MacOS driver when the whole drive is
> devoted to NetBSD?

I'm thinking of a drive with more than eight MacOS and NetBSD
partitions altogether. I'd like to be able to pick and choose which is
my sdN[efg]. The way it is now, when you create a partition with a
MacOS formatter, everything but sdNa is liable to move on you.