Subject: NetBSD/macppc installation media should include pdisk(8)
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <fair@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/30/2004 19:04:40
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Erik E. Fair
>Organization:
The Association of Mildly Peeved NetBSD/macppc Users
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: NetBSD/macppc installation media should include pdisk(8)
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Category: port-macppc
>Class: change-request
>Release: NetBSD 1.6.2
>Environment:
Architecture: macppc
Machine: macppc
>Description:
NetBSD/macppc's extensive installation instructions
cover the use of pdisk(8), but if your network is not
working, and you don't have it locally, the instructions
are not useful.
>How-To-Repeat:
boot a NetBSD/macppc 1.6.2 CD-ROM on a PowerMac dual G4 533 MHz
Try to install without recourse to MacOS
fail for lack of tools to tweak Apple's wonky partition tables
>Fix:
A working pdisk(8) binary should be included in NetBSD's
install media for macppc.