On 1 Mar 2006 13:52:32 -0800, Tyler Regas <tyler@pdahandyman.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to format a NetBSD partition in the install kernel? I'm
> theorizing that my write and stall errors are coming from existing data o=
n
> the partition. I can run fdisk on wd0, but I can't seem to find an
> interactive mode or the right switches to format the correct partition (d=
).

Why are you formatting d? d should be the whole disk, not a
partition... What are you trying to accomplish?

The install kernel can do fdisk, disklabel and newfs for sure, thats
what the kernel uses to do the install. It can also do fsck.

Andy