Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > Um... No. "disklabel -r ..." writes a disklabel, but the kernel never
> > > reads it.
> > 
> > If one has a disk used only by NetBSD, does this mean that it still
> > has to be partitioned w/ a MacOS disk utility?
> 
> Yeah, basically. The partition map actually has a reasonably simple
> format, but I don't know that anyone's created a tool to construct one
> from within NetBSD, yet. 

sysinst can do this now, more or less (although it hasn't been as heavily
tested as i'd like).  i don't think it's built with a standard
distribution but it's in src/distrib/utils/sysinst if anyone wants to play
with it :-)

later.

colin