Maybe you could make two root partions with mkfs (or one root and one root & usr)
Then you could install a minimum BSD to one of the root partions.  

Then you boot that and do the work that you have to do on the other partitions
ie: "newfs /dev/sd0g"  and "fsck_ffs -c3 /dev/sd0g "

Then either use ftp or cpin to get the other sets over on there.

Warning:  Once you make the file system a type 3, you can't use cpin to put
something on that partion.

Then you need to untar the sets to the new type 3 partitions.  This was tricky for
me.  I mounted  my future "/" on a directory called spare.  Because you can't 
have two "/" partions.  Then i made a directory called usr in the spare directory
and i mounted my future usr partition in there.

  Then I did "cd /spare; tar --unlink -zxvpf /path/to/bsd/sets"


On my first attempt at this I forgot about the /dev/ directory.  You'll have to
tar that up yourself and untar it onto the soon to be "/" directory.


When that's done you need to edit the /etc/fstab file to reflect your 
desired file system layout.  So in my example the partition that i mounted 
on /spare, will be mounted on / on the next boot.


So then you shutdown and boot up MacOS and set the booter to boot from
your new / partion.  

Next boot.  And now you can do newfs on the old root partion that you booted
from the first time.  After that you can convert it to the same type of 
file system as the other partions.

  This worked for me.  But I have two drives.  I'm assuming you could do
it on one drive also.  

Does anyone know a reason why this couldn't be done
with just one hard drive??














--- Nathan Raymond <nate@portents.com> wrote:
> At 5:37 PM -0700 6/4/00, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Nathan Raymond wrote:
> >
> >>  I recently installed netbsd-1.4.2 on an LC475 (with full 040) I just
> >>  got, and I thought since the Mac installer makes an ffs of type 1 by
> >>  default and newfs makes one of type 2, I should convert the root file
> >
> >Note that making such a change makes the filesystem unusable by the
> >installer, and you might have intermittent difficulties with the
> >booter. Both of those applications were made using code which only
> >understands type 1 ffs's.
> 
> Well considering my drive (a 2GB IBM Deskstar) generates SCSI #5 
> errors when trying to use the installer (except for cpin), I figured 
> once I get the system up and networked, the installer won't be much 
> help anyway (I'd just be losing the installer's command line).
> 
> --
> Nathan Raymond


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