On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 05:44  PM, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> At 2:51 PM +1200 4/9/03, David Friggens wrote:
>
> :)How do I get NetBSD to use it as swap?
>
> That is an excellent question, and one I was planning to ask this 
> weekend
> when I had time to document things a little more.
>
> Basically, as I see it, the only three methods of creating swap 
> partitions are
> a) using sysinst and making the disk NetBSD-only
> b) using MacOS 9's Drive Setup
> c) using Bob Nestor's hacked pdisk (which only runs under MacOS 9)
>
> I don't think there are any OSX tools that will create a NetBSD root or
> swap partition.  You can use OSX tools (Disk Utility or pdisk) to 
> create a
> UFS partition for use with NetBSD, but it isn't partition "a".

I also have a version of sysinst along with an Installation kernel that 
handles disk partitioning within the Apple Disk partition Map.  It is 
the same code as the mac68k port uses and it allows one to install 
NetBSD alongside other systems on the same disk.

-bob