I recently purchased (very cheaply) a Quadra 800 and a Quadra 610 and
upgraded them to 16 megs of ram for the purpose of installing NetBSD (I
have many NetBSD i386 machines).  I've read the installation guide and
the FAQ's which mention the Apple SC Partitioning tool.  I tried the
tool, but I've found that it tags "*"'s on the 2 partitions (driver,
MacOS) which signifies that the partitions are in use and cannot be
modified. Do I need some sort of boot disk, or do I need to reinstall
MacOS and set the partitions up during the install procedure?  I'm quite
familiar with Unix, but this supposed Mac "user friendliness" is
confusing me :)

I'm sorry if this is also silly question, but is the Mac68k port the
only one that requires a "stepping stone" OS to boot it?

Please feel free to point me to any documentation I may have overlooked.

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Pat Wendorf