Hello,

> I have some trouble trying to install NetBSD/Atari.
> 
> How do I get boot-10.fs and inst-10.fs.[12] on a floppy
> disk? The rawwrite program doesn't work, as it tries to
> write beyond the 80'th track. I formatted 2*80*9, should
> I be using some other format (82/83 tracks)?
I suspect the sizes of the images to be wrong. The rawwrite
program just continues writing until the input file is
completely written to disk. All 3 images should be exactly
720KB each!

> Furthermore the installation guide somewhat confused me.
> The install program seems to expect two partitions, but
> since the smallest partion in my system is ~122 MB, I
> was planning to start with just one partition for both
> the root and /usr filesystem. Is it possible to skip
> the automatic installation and run newfs, etc manually?
Yes, when you say _not_ to install, you will get a shell
prompt. You can then create your filesystem. Mount this
on '/mnt' and create '/mnt/usr'. Hereafter, you can 
continue with extracting and installing the sets.

> 
> What about those partition IDs mentioned in the inst.
> guide? Is it really necessary to use those exact names?
> I already use several partition IDs to keep MiNT/MagiC
> away from filesystems they don't understand, I don't
> intend to change the way things are (never change a
> winning horse :-) ). As far as the swap-partition is
> concerned, NetBSD will have to do with a BGM partition
> ID as this partition is already shared between MiNT/MagiC
> and Linux. But I can hardly imagine that NetBSD would
> really rely on some meanungless part. ID (even harddisk
> drivers for TOS/MiNT/MagiC know better than that).
I am afraid it won't swap on a partition id other than
'NBS', you can try later to explicitely define a device
for swapping maybe this will work I never tried this. The
problem is not in the driver but in the BSD partitioning
sceme. Maybe some constraints can be loosened here but
this has to be tried. At the moment, this is not very high
on my whish-list. For now, the best bet for you is to change
the partition id to NBS before starting 'loadbsd' and change
it back to BGM when you're done. This can be done without
mangling or destroying anything, it's just a nuisance.
> 
> BTW is there any limit to the number of partitions per
> disk, that NetBSD can handle? (this might look like a
> silly question, but currently it is a serious problem
> under Linux (max. 15 part./disk)).
Same for NetBSD, the limit of 32 (or more) is on my whish list
but at the moment, more important stuff has to be done.

- Leo.