At 6:18 AM +0900 6/14/02, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>	yesterday i received a new iBook, and tried to install OpenBSD on it.
>	in the installer OpenBSD had the following two choices:
>	- similar to NetBSD, partition HFS+ and other stuff by Apple disk tool
>	  and use complex partition-numbering scheme.
>	- use DOS-like MBR record and FDISK partitioning, and have 1M DOS
>	  partition that contains bootloader.  the rest will be OpenBSD-only
>	  partition (no HFS+).
>
>	I went through NetBSD intsllation note, and found nothing like the
>	latter choice mentioned (I checked distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/macppc
>	as well).  the latter choice worked very nice when I would like to
>	use OpenBSD alone on my harddisk.  is it possible to use this scheme
>	on NetBSD?  if so, why not?

The two choices for NetBSD are Apple Partition Map (prefered for OF 
3) and traditional BSD disklabel (necessary for boot disk on OF 1). 
AFAIK nobody's yet figured out a boot mechanism for us that works on 
all OF versions.

Us Mac folk don't do Windows.  ;-)
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