Hi,

First, look here:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/09/25/0005.html

I've been busy with other things the last couple days, but will get
back to it real soon now.  If you don't mind possibly having to re-
install a few times, contact me privately and I'll see what I can
throw together for you to try.

Otherwise, take the 32M from MacOS, install NetBSD, then install
hfsutils to format the HFS partition and copy in ofwboot.xcf and
the kernel.  You'll have to load ofwboot from CD the first few
times, but it may take some experimentation to get a working
command that loads a kernel (from CD or HD) and runs from the HD.

-Neil


Dan wrote:
> 
> After reading the install file a few times and attempting different
> partitioning schemes a few times I am still confused about a few things.
> BTW I am trying to install 1.6 from a bootable cd onto a tangerine iBook
> (one usb, no firewire) with OF 3 and nvram v4.1.7f4.  My goal is to have
> this be a strict NetBSD system, but I constantly see information about
> partitioning for dual-boot systems so I'm not sure what part of the
> partitioning I still need to do if I don't want macos anywhere on the
> system.  Anyway, this is how I /think/ things are supposed to go along with
> the questions associated with the step:
> 
> 1) I need at least one HFS/HFS+ partition to put ofwboot.xcf on because OF
> can't boot from anything other than those partitions.  How am I supposed to
> create this partition?  I tried using Drive Setup (booting from the macos 9
> cd) but the smallest partition it will let me create is 32MB.  If all I need
> on the HFS/HFS+ partition is the ofwboot.xcf file then I won't need it
> bigger than 100k (the file itself I believe is under 60k.  Also, do I need
> to create my other partitions at this time too or can I create those with
> the netbsd installer (assuming I want them to be ffs, which I do)?  And if I
> do create them with the netbsd installer, will it recognise that HFS
> partition that I created earlier and not demolish it?  (My goal is to have
> all partitions be standard FFS (other than swap obviously) except for this
> required HFS/HFS+ partition).
> 
> The rest of my questions kind of hinge on how I'm supposed to setup my
> partitions, but assuming I have this HFS partition created, how and when do
> I get ofwboot.xcf onto it?  From what I can tell this isn't part of the
> standard NetBSD install.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.  I've got a couple more questions but they
> depend on me answering these questions first.
> 
> Dan