Subject: Re: Sharing drives between NetBSD and MacOS
To: Martijn van Buul <martijnb@stack.nl>
From: Jojo <info@thrill-inc.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/15/2001 07:49:20
>Hello,
>
>I know it's not going to be easy, but the installation manual hinted
>that it is possible:
>
>I have a PowerMac G3/233DT, with the original 4 GB ATA disk, and a
>540 MB SCSI disk. I originally wanted to dedicate the 4GB disk to 
>NetBSD, and the SCSI one to MacOS, but it turned out that NetBSD won't
>boot from the ATA disk ("DEFAULT CATCH!"). It boots fine from the
>SCSI disk, though.
>
>I'm not quite willing to give up MacOS altogether, but the SCSI disk
>is too small to be really useful for NetBSD - A binary-only installation
>fits, but the sources most definately won't. Is there any way to have
>NetBSD use a *portion* of the IDE disk? 
>
why dont you install root and swap on the scsi drive and put /usr on a
partition of the IDE drive?

-Jojo
>If everything else fails, I could start rummaging in /usr/src/sys/dev/
>ata/*, fooling the driver into thinking that the drive is actually 
>smaller, and add an offset at the right places. However, I'd call that
>an ugly hack :)
>
>Any ideas?
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