Subject: Re: Discrepencies in how MBR labels work
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/13/2003 18:15:36
At 7:45 PM -0500 3/13/03, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
>At 9:09 PM -0500 3/8/03, James Chacon wrote:
>>  >The Cube is OF3, so I suppose what you've found is NA for OF1.  Is
>>>there are reason you don't just put ofwboot.xcf in an Apple HFS
>>>partition like we usually do for OF3?
>>
>>We don't have any tools to make HFS partitions on netbsd and my cube no
>>longer has any macos on it (new drive).
>
>Wouldn't pdisk work?

1) Do we have a version of pdisk for NetBSD, or just for MacOS and Linux?

2) Pdisk would only create the partition map entry.  It wouldn't 
format the partition or copy files into it.  You'd need something 
like hfsutils on some already-running NetBSD system in order to do 
the rest of the job.
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