At 1:22 AM +0100 3/10/03, dario billo wrote:
>Hi all, I've a doubt. I've one hard disk with 5 partitions. In one 
>of them I've installed Mac OS X. I'm trying to make an installation 
>of NetBSD but "sysinst" doesn't seem to use slices on a partition 
>such as FreeBSD, it seems want to use all disk space or rewrite the 
>partition itself. This is my ask: FreeBSD use slices such as 
>FreeBSD? In the installation program sysinst want to write itself 
>the partition? Thank you and excuse me for my very bad english :-)
>hi

"Don't do that. (TM)"

sysinst will repartition the disk for you.  You don't want it to. 
Use the existing Apple partition map.  I think there is an "upgrade" 
option in sysinst that may do what you want.  Otherwise just exit 
sysinst and do the install by hand.  (Untar the distribution into the 
partition.  Copy the boot files to your main HFS partition.  cd 
..../dev; sh MAKEDEV all  vi .../etc/fstab, etc.  If you were able to 
boot sysinst then you should have some idea how to set up open 
firmware to boot the installed system.

If you get a copy of -current from this year then NetBSD understands 
the OSX version of ffs (called UFS within OSX).  That makes it really 
sweet for installation on an OSX machine.  You just format the 
partition under OSX, unpack the distribution there, edit the config 
files.  The only thing you need to boot the installer for is to run 
the MAKEDEV script.
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