Partitions of a single drive act like separate drives. I think the 
install notes say that OS 9 and NetBSD can't coexist on a single 
_partition_.

You can set the powerbook up (through OF) to boot automatically to OS 
9, to NetBSD, or to to stop at OF each time for you to tell it what to 
boot. The procedure is in the install notes.

Everything can be on the hard drive, but the bootloader has to go on 
the OS 9 (HFS/HFS+) partition. You might have to copy it there 
manually. I couldn't boot after installing till I tried this (spent 
hours trying different boot commands before realising the problem).

If you get X working, I'd love a copy of your XF86Config file.


On 22 Jun 2005, at 15:21, Dominic Williams wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a powerbook G3 series on which I would like to
> install NetBSD while keeping MacOS 9.
>
> If I understand macppc/INSTALL.html correctly, there is
> no way (under OF 2.0.x) of dual-booting MacOS and
> NetBSD on one hard drive.
>
> After reading that and also the partitioning guide, I
> am still trying to understand how, in practice, the two
> OS's can coexist?
>
> Does it boot to MacOS 9 by default, unless I boot using
> a floppy? Can I have everything, including the
> bootloader, on the hard drive and boot into
> OpenFirmware, and then use an OF command to tell it
> what to boot onto?
>
> I'm just trying to understand what the options are, and
> then I can get back to reading the documentation with a
> clearer idea of where I'm going!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dominic Williams.
>