Bill Studenmund wrote:
> While the macppc kernel supports living with Apple partition map drives,
> sysinst doesn't and insists on writing a disklabel.
...
> You're touching on a discussion which has a semantic niggle: there's a
> conceptual difference between a bsd disklabel, which is a particular way
> to store partition info on disk, and a struct disklabel in the kernel
> which tells the live kernel where to look for different partitions. In the
> past the same structure was used for both, and so supporting things like
> the Apple partition map didn't work well.
>
> NetBSD will always need something to tell it where the partitions are, a
> "disklabel" if you will. However it won't always need a bsd disklabel on
> the disk. :-)

  So to share a drive between NetBSD and MacOS, one would have to
install without sysinst, i.e., partition with a non-NetBSD
partitioning tool, boot into NetBSD, format the appropriate
partitions, and then just untar?

J. David Blackstone