Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 - more trouble or just my terminal?
To: None <port-prep@netbsd.org>
From: Rongsheng Fang <rfang@cs.gmu.edu>
List: port-prep
Date: 01/31/2005 10:15:24
> As for the installation... like I said earlier, I'm new to *BSD (new
> to any *nix for that matter). I loaded up the sysinst program, and
> tried installing... selected Full installation, when it asked if I
> wanted to edit the MBR or use entire disk, I selected the entire disk,
> it then asked "Yes or no?" with no information regarding it... wtf,
> eh?

> I selected no, and it brought me to the question of set sizes of
> NetBSD partitions or use existing partition sizes... I selected use
> existing partition sizes, it then brought me to a diagram of the
> partitions, I selected partition sizes OK, and it then said "You can
> either edit the partition table by hand, or give up and rturn to the
> main menu." ... "Edit the partition table again?", and it presents me
> with Yes, which brings me back to that diagram, or no which brings me
> back to the main menu.

Reading through Jochen Kunz's tutorial on the 43p-140 installation 
might help you out:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-prep/2005/01/25/0002.html

Rongsheng