At 11:21 AM -0700 2/7/01, Parker wrote:
>"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
>
> > Therefore what you need to do is partition your disk with the Apple
> > tool so it has three partitions:  a small HFS one to hold either
> > ofwboot.xcf (or ofwboot.elf), a larger one as A/UX swap, and the rest
> > as A/UX root & user.
>
>Yes this is what I did multiple times and it worked fine. See below 
>for where my
>ignorance really shines. ;)
>
> > You should be able to get into ofwboot by just putting it in the HFS
> > partition and using 0 as the partition number inside OF.  Once you
> > get that far my earlier message should apply.
>
>I can boot no problem with ofwboot on the hfs partition, but I'm not 
>getting how
>to actually install the kernel and NetBSD sets onto the hard drive _without_
>needing to run newfs?! I have found no way to convert the  A/UX swap 
>and A/UX /
>to 4.2BSD from the MacOS side and I'm afraid I don't know how to do 
>it from the
>NetBSD side without using that newfs step in the sysinst... I've messed around
>with disklabel as well, but I'm not familiar enough with it to make 
>sense out of
>it yet (soon hopefully!!). So now you see my problem no doubt.

Ah, OK.  The key point is that it's not newfs that blows away the 
Apple Partition Map, it's installboot.

Once you have an install kernel booted you just 'newfs /dev/rwd0a', 
mount and go on about the business of my earlier procedure. 
Everything should be fine if you can just give OF and ofwboot the 
right arguments.  You will need to know the partition number of the 
A/UX root & user partition in the Apple Partition Map, but you can 
probably just 'boot hd:0,ofwboot.xcf -a' in OF and then try 
"hd:<n>,netbsd" for n >= 5 to find what works.  (Assuming you have 
everything else set up properly.)  Then you can set the OF variables 
to boot there directly.

>I will go back and try to digest your previous suggestions step by step
>(newfs'ing just a partition I believe or something to that effect so that it
>doesn't overwrite the hfs partition?).
>
>So really my ignorance is my problem (no newbie flames please, I'm 
>working on it
>=\). I thank you all for your interest/patience so far. This is the 
>most support
>I've seen in a long time from a list. I'll remember to repay the 
>favor someday.
>:)
>
> > I think this all equivalent to what the web site everyone points at says.
>
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