Henry B. Hotz  (hotz@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:

>At 4:17 PM -0800 2/28/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>>Henry B. Hotz  (hotz@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
>>>2) Format the FFS partition(s) with Mkfs or however else you might do it
>>>under port-mac68k.
>>
>>Sort of.  Mkfs can't handle IDE disks at all right now, nor can it handle
>>SCSI disks on Bus 1.  On my G3 system that's where the SCSI disk hangs.
>
>Ah.
>
>I hadn't thought about that.  I have [78]500 machines and scsi-int is bus
>0.  I guess I'm lucky and most people really are in trouble.

Great!  Then you should be able to run Mkfs and the Installer and put a 
macppc system on the disk.  I'm not sure if the Installer "Build Devices" 
will work, but it's worth a shot.  I don't know how you'd fix it if it 
didn't work though.  It's not as easy as fixing fstab. ;-)

-bob