Subject: Re: how to format/partition a SCSI disk for a PowerMac 8500 (OF
To: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/25/2000 17:00:07
At 4:02 PM -0800 2/23/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>Dan Winship  (danw@helixcode.com) wrote:
>>There's no MacOS tool currently in existence that will let you set up
>>the disk to be NetBSD-bootable.
>
>I think this is true, but we're not far from being able to do this.  The

I must be missing something here.  What do we need?  We can load
ofwboot.xcf directly from an HFS partition in OF.  We can use all the
mac68k and MacOS tools to create the partitions in the first place.

Does ofwboot.xcf not understand Apple Partition Maps?  Does it not look in
the right place (TM) for /netbsd when loaded?  Both of these problems would
seem to be easy to fix.

Is the problem with the old-version ffs code in the installer?

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