On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Dan Winship wrote:

> > I think you can, though the tools aren't fully there yet - it's still a
> > very manual thing to do.
> 
> I've actually been trying to set this up on my new hard drive...
> 
> Problem one is that there's no NetBSD Mac partition editor, although
> MkLinux's "pdisk" works. (Although the interface sucks.)

Well, it _is_ open source.  Feel free to beat it to a pulp.  ;-)


> Problem two is that there's no way to tell the kernel that you changed
> the partition map on disk, so you have to reboot a lot.

Yeah.  There definitely needs to be an ioctl for that.  That's the one
chunk of code I believe I had to comment out to build pdisk under
NetBSD-nac68k a couple of years ago.


David