Subject: Re: Discrepencies in how MBR labels work
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/13/2003 21:27:20
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> 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.

	Or steal the apps that NetBSD/mac68k (used to?) use that run from 
MacOS and adapt them for PPC.