Hi there,

is it possible to use this new pdisk with 1.6.1 Installation ISO (by
fetching the pdisk file from a remote host)? Or is a more recent
-current snapshot needed?

Regards,
Anselm

Darrin B. Jewell schrieb:
> 
> The pdisk utility in the -current source tree has been
> updated to be
> able to create the A/UX style root, user and swap
> partitions used by
> NetBSD.  This should make installation easier since the
> tools
> discussed in the INSTALL document do not work on Mac OS
> X.
> Furthermore, the tools supplied with OS X do not support
> creating
> A/UX style partitions.
> 
> I have also compiled this utility on a NetBSD/macppc 1.6
> system
> and a MacOS X 10.2.5 system.  These binaries have been
> uploaded
> to
> <URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/netbsd-pdisk>
> 
> The following files should be in that directory:
> 
>    README.pdisk              A copy of this description.
>    netbsd-pdisk.macos-10-2   NetBSD's pdisk compiled on
> Mac OS X 10.2.5
>    netbsd-pdisk.macppc-1-6   NetBSD's pdisk compiled on
> NetBSD/macppc 1.6
>    netbsd-pdisk.src.20030424.tgz  An archive of the
> sources.
>    pdisk.cat8                The pdisk man page, with
> terminal formatting.
>    pdisk.cat8.txt            The pdisk man page as a
> plain text file.
> 
> Please direct NetBSD/macppc installation and partitioning
> questions
> to the port-macppc mailing list at netbsd.org.
> 
> Thanks,
> Darrin
>