Subject: MBR partitioning
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/14/2002 06:18:14
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?
itojun