Hello,

> > I have an UFS partition on the internal drive - would NetBSD be 
> > willing to live there? Updating the kernel would still be a pain but 
> > not having to mount / via NFS would certainly improve things. Or is 
> > there a ofwboot.xcf that understands Apple UFS?
> 
> Yes, on all counts. 
Fine :)

> The only hitch is that the kernel does not default 
> to selecting the "a" partition correctly if there's no "A/UX root".  It 
> ought to default to setting whichever partition is UFS to "a" if 
> there's no explicit "a".  You'll need to "boot -a", figure out which 
> partition NetBSD thinks your UFS partition is, then hard-code it into 
> the kernel.
That's what I thought I'll have to do anyway :)
Thanks for the info.

have fun
Michael