Subject: Re: MBR partitioning
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/14/2002 06:34:15
In article <2467.1024003094@itojun.org>
itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> - 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?
I guess:
- No one has tried it
- We need to have "generic" newfs_msdos(8) or makefs(8) with msdosfs support
(which is also required by NetBSD/arc, BTW)
- libsa/dosfs.c might have some problem:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/04/02/0000.html
But all of these should be trivial.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp