OK, as I read this it becomes clear to me why I am going nuts. I want
to get it so I can boot into either MacOS or NetBSD (not necessarily
from openfirmware though that would be the best.) 

The NetBSD installer, as far as I can tell, will gladly take over my
only harddisk and wipe out the HFS partition. The partition already
has 4GB with onld Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partitions from Linux PowerPC and
Debian Linux excursions. One way of reading the install instructions
implies that I should be able to somehow install into this space, with
the drawback that it won't be bootable from openfirmware. 

I can't figure out how to do that. If I delete the old linux
partitions will the installers sport it? Is there something wrong with
the way the partitions currently exist.

Other readings seem to imply that I would need to get another
Harddisk, perhaps hook up a third party SCSI drive, and install on
that. Perhaps there might be a way where I could do a minimal install
onto a 100MB zip disk and make that disk bootable, setting it up so it
could mount the internal ATA drive partitions.


On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:01:15AM +0100, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> | Wait a minute.  I was assuming that you had a NetBSD disk which was 
> | separate from the MacOS one.  You somehow have a MacOS partition on a 
> | NetBSD-disklabel'ed disk?  How'd you do that?
> 
>   No, just an A/UX partition with a NetBSD disklabel in it. Just
> that it's located before the HFS partitions that hold MacOS.
> 
>   I guess the upgrade "knows" that there is some unused space
> in A/UX partitions it can use for disk drivers and stuff, unfortunately
> it isn't really unused. I should probably repartition and leave a
> couple of megs at the start of the A/UX partition free, just in
> case.
> 
> 	mjl

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Josh Kuperman                       
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