Subject: Re: Formatting a drive
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/19/2001 17:26:49
Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>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.

Not that I know of in the mac68k port, unless it's MSDOS format.

-bob