At 3:50 PM -0600 1/15/01, J. David Blackstone wrote:
>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?

More or less.  You need to build devices too.

You also need a way to boot, and usually a pure-BSD disk is the best 
way to do that.


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