Subject: Re: Booting an iMac after installing 1.6Z
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew A Kolb <muk@msu.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/08/2003 10:32:32
Matthew A Kolb writes: 

> Ryan La Riviere writes:  
> 
>> On 10/7/03 3:11 PM, "Matthew A Kolb" <muk@msu.edu> wrote:  
>> 
>>> I simply installed macos 9 on to the hfs partition, and copied
>>> ofwboot.xcf from the install media to the hard drive (not the
>>> desktop).
>> 
>> How do you get a hfs partition and the ffs partitions?  Drive Setup in OS 
>> 9
>> and disklabel don't seem to get along (or see what the other has done).
>  
> 
> What I have done in the past is this:
> Boot OS9 install cd.
> format drive with partitioning tool that comes with os9.
> I create multiple partitions, one mac hfs, an AUX Root, AUX Swap,
> AUX Usr  
> 
> then, to install netbsd, you must drop into a shell from the installer,
> disklabel /dev/wd0 to get a list of your partitions, newfs the partitions
> to be used with netbsd (/dev/wd0a, /dev/wd0g) then go back into the
> installer, and choose re-install sets.  
> 
 

eek. i forgot to mention that you need to mount your root partition
and create an /etc/fstab, then umount your root partition, prior to
selecting re-install sets. 


./muk 

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m. kolb  <muk@msu.edu>