Subject: Re: ide installation
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Takeo Kuwata <tkuwata@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/02/2002 18:17:52
Hi,

>> - I do still need a mac-os partition to boot from, right? via floppies I can
>> reinstall mac-os
>> 7.0.1 or so without problems!?
>
>Yes. Then download unpack the Booter, copy the gzipped
>netbsd-INSTALL.gz kernel into the Booter folder, and select that file
>to boot from. There are still bugs in sysinstall, but it does have the
>capability to create partitions as long as it recognizes the disk. The
>worse that can happen is that it wipes out the Mac OS installation you
>will have just made.

Can IDE HD be used in current?
I do not think so. The "IDE -atched" netbsd-INSTALL.gz kernel is needed to 
install to IDE HD.


tkuwata (Takeo Kuwata)
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