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Hello,

> 1) Does NetBSD REQUIRE a swap partition?
Not really, but some programs ( like gcc ) feel uncomfortable without one. For instance I couldn't build QT3 on an iBook G4 with 640MB RAM without a swap partition. It built successfully on other machines where RAM+swap was less than 640MB.

> 2) What's the state of Apple UFS support in NetBSD-2.0 and/or later?  
> I'm trying to use NetBSD-2.0, and I'd like to keep doing that, as 
> binaries are available...
Works just fine for me - my iBook G4 has NetBSD installed in an Apple UFS partition.


> and the NetBSD kernel loads.
> 
> Unfortunately, at the end of the process, I get stuck with the 
> following repeating sequence:
> 
> 	cannot mount root, error = 69
> 	root device (default wd0a)
> 	dump device (default wd0b)
> 
> I don't know what it's doing here.
Well known problem. You need to hard-code the root device into your kernel, change your kernel config like this and roll your own:

# Kernel root file system and dump configuration.
config		netbsd	root on wd0g type ffs

wd0g is hd:7 here, for you it will be a different device, obviously ;)

> Is it possible to boot from an Apple UFS partition, without a swap 
> partition?  Can this be made to work?
Definitely yes.

have fun
Michael

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