On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 08:02:56PM +1200, David Aiau wrote:
> 1st partition: vol name root: size 3 gig

  Thats much to much. I believe the size of my root partition is 128MB.

> 2nd partition: vol name swap: size 1 gig <-- remain in first 4 gig right?

  swap and root must be within the first 4GB to be able to boot from these
  partitions with the bootblocks. If you use loadbsd then it doesn't matter
  where the partitions are located.
  And the size for swap is probably to large. For 128MB RAM I use a 256
  MB swap partition.

> 3rd partition: vol name  var: size 5 gig

  Probably also to much.

> 4th partition: vol name  usr: size 20 gig?

  How much stuff are you going to install to /usr? 

> 5th partition: vol name local:size rest of 40 gig?

  Make this a large home

> and does it matter what I set for buffers most partitions as they are now
> have 1024k

  DOS buffers only have meaning for AmigaOS. Set them to 0 and disable
  automount. You can't access NetBSD partitions behind the 4GB limit
  from AmigaOS anyway.

> later once I become familiar I will look at the PPC if practical...
> i.e. depends where the development of it is...

  I have no idea if te PPC port is usable

> btw, there is no 2.1 package release of files? is 2.02 the latest? thanks

  2.0 packages should work for 2.1.

  Gunther