> > Unfortunately, these partitions show up as "unknown" (os opposed to
> > 4.2BSD) when running disklabel, and newfs refuses to put a filesystem
> > on them.

> I think you did almost right. Inside the installer you have to change
> the NetBSD partitions from unknown to 4.2BSD with disklabel and _then_
> use newfs.

I checked out disktab(5) and disklabel(5) and (8). It seems that I need to
put the string "4.2BSD" into the appropriate t[a-h] entries. Is this all
that needs to be done? That is, I don't need to adjust any of the other
entries present in /etc/disktab, right?

Thankyou.

Andrew.