On torsdag, okt 10, 2002, at 19:52 Europe/Copenhagen, Russell McManus 
wrote:

> After doing a bunch of reading, I guess the question is simply
> how to get an initial disklabel on to the new disk before sysinst
> takes a crack at it.  I'm going to try out a bunch of the
> examples from the disklabel man page, but if anyone knows how
> to do this, the help would be much appreciated.

Try to check out appendix B of 'The NetBSD operating system -- a short 
guide': "Installing without sysinst". It explains how to use disklabel:
	http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/ap-inst.html
Good luck.

Daniel



> -russ
>
> --- Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I've got the install iso cd image, and I'm trying to install
>> 1.6 onto a completely empty disk.  The disk has had neither
>> macos nor netbsd installed on it before.
>>
>> sysinst notes that the disk does not have a macos or netbsd
>> disklable. sysinst then runs the disklabel -r command, which fails.
>> I suspect that I need to do something from the shell before sysinst
>> tries to install the partition map to get this to work right.
>>
>> any ideas on how to proceed? I didn't see this mentioned in the
>> 1.6 macppc install notes.
>>
>> -russ
>>
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