On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Bob Nestor wrote:

> >I guess pdisk doesn't work under NetBSD because of the problems writing
> >the partition map to disk. Or is it that it can't re-read the parition
> >map? If that's the case one could compile pdisk, use it to partition the
> >drive, restart, run newfs on the drive paritions, and away they go.
>
> Nobody has taught it how to do I/O under NetBSD.  It has the I/O routines
> for MkLinux and for MacOS, but none for NetBSD.  It wouldn't be hard to
> do, but it will take some time as all the disk addressing is done in
> MkLinux format.

The original poster said he wanted to use the whole disk for /usr.
Isn't there a default disk label for disks that have no Apple
Partition Map? If that's the case -- "disklabel sd1" shows a partition
besides "c" -- then all he has to do is newfs that partition.


Frederick