On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 Adrian_Roseboom@hud.gov wrote:

>   
>   WARNING: Extreme newbieness ahead
>   
>   fine, loading the miniroot, sensing the IBM drive, etc.  Eventually I 
>   figured out the disk labeling and set up my partitions.
>   
>   do i need to format these partitions after labeling them?  this used to 
>   be an IBM drive with DOS on it.  I wiped out those partitions before but 
>   I can still cat DOS data out of it.  if I need to format, can I do it in 
>   the miniroot?
>   
> 
> 
I had problem with disk labeling after I booted NetBSD from tape.  Do you
mind explaining a bit more how you did this?