On mandag, jan 27, 2003, at 05:25 Europe/Copenhagen, 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?
>

Don't touch anything else, since those might belong to Mac OS X. Once 
your NetBSD partitions are 4.2BSD (and one of type 'swap' for swap). 
Then install NetBSD onto those.

Daniel