Subject: Re: newfs is blowing my hfs
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/05/2001 18:29:13
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 7:01 PM -0700 2/5/01, Parker wrote:
> >is that when I'm going through the install procedures the newfs setup
> >blows my hfs partition out of the water so the install completes, but I
> 
> Are you sure it's newfs and not installboot that's the problem?

I'm sure that it is actually installboot which is the problem. :-)

One of the things installboot does is overwrite the Apple partition map
with a very simple one. Thus your hfs partition goes away. :-(

Take care,

Bill