On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Christian Foerster wrote:
> you have to do an manual install of NetBSD, because at the moment
> sysinst doesn=B4t support the option to use part of the disk as
> mentioned in the manual file.

I can confirm this from experience. I have tried both and sysinst did blow
me away (I'm not sure exactly what operation) but the manual install
worked quite well. Thankfully I was ready for the possibility of data loss
so I was unhurt.

> Makoto Fujiwara has created a really cool page on installing NetBSD
> by hand. Have look under http://www.ki.nu/software/NetBSD/iBook2/
> It helped me a lot for installing NetBSD on my PB G3 with an existing
> Mac OS 9 on a HFS+ partition.

And I would like to second the recommendation of this web site. Thank you
very much Makoto! This was very well done and my PowerBook G3 with
Firewire is working great. (Well, I haven't yet configured X but I'm still
learning here...)

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