Bill Studenmund  (wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov) wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dan Winship wrote:
>
>> > BTW I'd like to change the partition map now (before I start installing 
>lots
>> > of stuff) in anticipation of later dual booting with NetBSD; should I have
>> > one extra partition besides MacOS or a small fleet of them like on mac68k?
>
>I'd vote for the small fleet of them. Make one MacOS partition for each
>NetBSD partition you want. You really only need root & swap, others are at
>your discresion (sp?).
>
>With a -current kernel, if you haven't disklabeled the disk, the MacOS
>partitions will show up now. I'm looking into getting UNIX tools to mess
>around with their types, but in the mean time, I think the mac68k utility
>mkfs should work fine.

Mkfs will work on the PPC Mac except for one minor problem -- it doesn't 
do IDE disks.  I started a total re-write of it some time ago to include 
this. But while doing so I figured out how to get sysinst/mac68k working 
with the Apple Disk Partition Map, and that's what I ended up spending my 
time on.

So, I think your only real option for IDE disks will be the low-level 
"pdisk" utility form the MkLinux crowd.  It will also work on SCSI disks.

-bob