On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 02:12 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 6:31 PM -0500 10/20/02, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> I ported the mac68k version of sysinst to the macppc port so it can 
>> handle the Apple Disk Partition Map.  You should have a good backup 
>> of your disk before trying this out though.
>>
>> If anyone tries this out and finds a problem, please let me know.
>
> So you're telling me we can support APM in sysinst with this 
> patch?!?!!?

Yes, partitioning with the Apple Partition Map works with this code.  
This version of sysinst will allow you to keep MacOS, OSX, Linux, 
whatever, on your disk along with NetBSD... provided you have the disk 
space and the Map space.  I've used it on my B&W G3 and it was still 
able to boot MacOS when I was done.  In fact the Linux Boot code was 
still on the system and working when I finished.

> OK, I guess it doesn't follow that we support native booting under all 
> versions of OF, right?  Just means that all the people using OF3 
> systems don't get hosed by the default install method.  That's still 
> an enormous simplification of the install instructions.

Don't know about this.  From what I could tell sysinst only wrote the 
boot code to the designated boot partition.  I could be wrong though 
and that's one of the reasons I'd like folks to play with the code.  It 
is almost a straight copy of the mac68k code which works fine, but then 
again it doesn't write bootstraps.  :)

-bob