Subject: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?
To: Henry B. Hotz <supermac@hawaii.rr.com>
From: Vickie Jean- Charles <muscadin@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/05/2001 15:50:16
Greetings,

What finally worked was the following God-inspired entries:

0> boot cd:ofwboot.xcf
boot: hd:7,boot.fs

Salaam (Peace),

Vickie


------Original Message------
From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Vickie Jean- Charles <muscadin@earthlink.net>, Dave Low <supermac@hawaii.rr.com>, Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>, Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
Sent: March 5, 2001 5:07:26 PM GMT
Subject: Re: How does one install NetBSD on a mac cube?


Glad you got it working.  What magic incantation actually worked?

At 10:13 AM -0500 3/5/01, Vickie Jean- Charles wrote:
>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?

Depends on whether you have an Apple Partition Map, or a NetBSD 
disklabel.  For the former use the MacOS tools under MacOS.  For the 
latter use the disklabel command under NetBSD (man disklabel).


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Salaam (Peace),

Vickie