Subject: Re: A recent disk format saga (with v2.0_RC5 tools/sysinst) **Long**
To: Gene ENonymous <yancm@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/29/2004 15:44:35
If I have a separate disk to devote to MacBSD, I just use the system 
installer in the boot image provided, which looks the same everywhere 
formats the disk with the newer version of ffs... and extracting the 
.tar.gz under netbsd itself is FASTER and works also on larger disks.
Unfortunately it works only with MORE than 8 MB of ram (I don't know the 
minimum, but pax will fail with 8 and works with 20...) DOing a trick 
and making a swapon though is enough.

-R
On Saturday, November 27, 2004, at 08:36 PM, Gene ENonymous wrote:

>
> As we move forward in time I suspect it will be more common to have/try 
> to
> use larger disks and partitions - even with mac68k.
> I finally found scsi read 5 error in the faq and mailing lists,
> ...sigh...I'm old enough to RTFM!
> Would putting a port/mac68k condition specific warning message in
> sysinst (and mkfs on the mac side maybe), be philosophically allowed? -
> *EndAside*