Subject: Re: PB G3 with NetBSD and OS 9
To: Makoto Fujiwara <makoto@ki.nu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/21/2000 11:23:13
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Makoto Fujiwara wrote:

> c>> Is there any possibility to install NetBSD with Mac OS 9 on the same
> c>> disk, without erasing the whole disk.
> 
> Makoto> I belive by using disklabel (-e wd0) , you can do that, while 
> Makoto> I am not 
> Makoto> sure.(looks self-contradiction..)
> 
> c> Did not work because vi is missing in the installer kernel :-(
> 
> I meant disklabe -i -e wd0, sorry. (Interactively)

Do NOT use disklabel on a disk which is shared with a bootable MacOS
disk. Or with much of any shared disk.

MacOS puts "driver" info in the part of the sector where we put the
disklabel. Very bad....