Subject: Re: Preserving Apple partition map (Was: ATA/66 Controllers)
To: Cliff Crawford <cjc26@cornell.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/24/2001 14:15:06
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Cliff Crawford wrote:

> * Daniel Lamblin <daniell@slithy.toves.net> menulis:
> > 
> > I havn't tried NetBSD with it yet, mainly because I think I want to use a
> > manual install process, which I havn't figured out yet, to preserve my apple
> > partition map.  Is that even possible?

Yes. Don't run installboot.

> Yes--I used Drive Setup under MacOS to create an HFS partition, an A/UX
> root partition, A/UX swap, and A/UX usr.  Then when I booted from the
> NetBSD CD, disklabel showed the A/UX partitions as wd0a, wd0b, and wd0g
> respectively.  I was then able to newfs them without messing up the
> partition map, and then unpack the installation tarballs to them etc.

The above works great.

Take care,

Bill