> 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".

If you have a full system with pkgsrc, you can always install HFStools and 
move the sets over from the Mac partition. The tools are somewhat clumsy, 
but they work.

John