After doing a bunch of reading, I guess the question is simply
how to get an initial disklabel on to the new disk before sysinst
takes a crack at it.  I'm going to try out a bunch of the
examples from the disklabel man page, but if anyone knows how
to do this, the help would be much appreciated.

-russ

--- Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've got the install iso cd image, and I'm trying to install
> 1.6 onto a completely empty disk.  The disk has had neither
> macos nor netbsd installed on it before.
> 
> sysinst notes that the disk does not have a macos or netbsd
> disklable. sysinst then runs the disklabel -r command, which fails.
> I suspect that I need to do something from the shell before sysinst
> tries to install the partition map to get this to work right.
> 
> any ideas on how to proceed? I didn't see this mentioned in the
> 1.6 macppc install notes.
> 
> -russ
> 
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