I must be mistaken then. I'm more accustomed to the interactive fdisk from
DOS and Linux. It looked like the NetBSD partition was listed as d, as in
wd0d? I don't quite understand the notation yet, so I'm likely wrong. I have
a 15MB FAT partition at the top of the 2GB card and the rest is a NetBSD
partition. I'm getting install errors in 2.2 and 3.0 and I'm guessing its
because of old data still there. Hence, I'm trying to format the NetBSD
partition. I'd rather not delete it all and start from scratch as I don't
have a convenient Linux system. 

Also, I don't know how to use disklabel or newfs. Fsck I can use, though :)

Thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-hpcmips-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:port-hpcmips-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Andy Ruhl
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:59 PM
> To: Tyler Regas
> Cc: port-hpcmips@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Formatting volumes during installation
> 
> 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 on
> > 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
>