Greetings,

I finally got the installer to work, by the grace of God!!!!!!

However, there is one slight problem. And I know someone sent an email on this before and I should have paid more attention.........

How do I partition the drive without the installer?  I know on Linux I use pdisk.  Can I use it also for NetBSD and how would I make sure that it creates NetBSD partitions?

I will look through the archives and any other help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you everybody for all of your help with booting NetBSD.

Salaam (Peace),

Vickie

------Original Message------
From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Dave Low <supermac@hawaii.rr.com>, Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>, Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
Sent: March 5, 2001 12:37:21 AM GMT
Subject: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?


At 5:03 PM -1000 3/3/01, Dave Low wrote:
>My Actual experience with trying the above and something Todd wrote:
>
>0> boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf <return>  (then) /load-size=d4c4 adler32=1956c83a
>
>loading XCOFF
>
>tsize=bf00 dsize=14e4 bsize=1608 entry=600000
>
>.text  00600000 00600000 0000bf00 000000e0
>.data  0060c000 0060c000 000014e4 0000bfe0
>.bss   0060d4e8 0060d4e8 00001608 00000000
>loading .text, done..
>loading .data, done..
> >>NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> >> (mat@duel.local, Thu Nov 16 17:26:57 PST 2000)
>open: no such file or directory
>open /pci@f2000000/mac-io17/ata-4@1f000/disk@1:0/netbsd: no such file or
>directory
>
>Boot:

Try non-zero partition numbers.  Hmmm. No ofwboot won't allow that will it?

Actually what happens if you just try booting the kernel directly? 
That isn't reliable, but it might work.  In that case you would 
probably need to figure out what the real partition number is.  It'll 
be something like 4 or greater.


Signature held pending an ISO 9000 compliant
signature design and approval process.
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu