On Dec 11, 2007, at 7:07 PM, John Klos wrote:

> Was your 4.0 install done on a partition which was formatted with mkfs 
> under MacOS, or newfs under the NetBSD installer kernel? mkfs is 
> woefully out of date. On the other hand, you may be able to update the 
> 1.5 installation to 4 once the filesystem is in use.

I have no other option than using the traditional method to install 
BetBSD as I don't have a CD-ROM drive or until Sysinst can install 
files from the macos partition.  That would prevent me from updating 
the 1.5 installation with Sysinst as well.  Also, when I tried to use 
Sysinst to format my Mkfs created partitions and then install a system 
on it from the installer utility, it made the disk unreadable to MacOS 
and I had to use Mac disk utilities to set everything up from scratch.  
  Mkfs was up to date enough to allow me to install 4.0R5 on a root/user 
partition and boot into it, but when I mounted / and tried to reboot 
into multi-user mode... "magic numbers don't match".

Tom