Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD 1.6.2 on iBook (snow)
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Johnson <kaiser@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/08/2004 16:07:51
On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:55 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 9:26 AM -0500 3/8/04, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I'm ready to start over with the install on the machine, but I don't 
>> know how to get it to format at HFS+ since the only options given in 
>> the setup on the install CD are swap, BSD, and msdos.
>>
>> Where do I go from here?
>
> Partition/format with MacOS tools.  Create an A/UX root and swap 
> partition, and an HFS partition for the ofwboot.xcf.  Skip the 
> formatting step in sysinst.

How do I skip the formatting step?  There's no obvious escape from it.  
Should I create 3 partitions from the Panther installation disk and 
then use those to install on?  Will it work with only one partition, 
i.e. the whole disk?

-Michael

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