On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Andrew Nesbit wrote:

> > > 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?

No. Don't use disklabel.

You need to use pdisk, which I think should be in the install media.

Take care,

Bill