Subject: Re: New NetBSD install
To: Brad Salai <bsalai@tmonline.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/20/1997 01:45:41
> I've read the installation instructions which are pretty complete except
> for one thing. I am not sure how to partition the drive that will be the
> netbsd volume. I read the sun manpage for format, but it is pretty terse,
> and doesn't give me much guidance regarding partitioning new volumes.
> 
> The drive I have already has a single Sun partition on it that uses all the
> space. What I want is
> /root 20 MB
> /swap 128 MB
> /user 876 MB or whatever is left actually.
> 
> format can take this information from a file, I think, but there isn't any
> info on the format of the file.
> 
> Is there somewhere else I should look.

What i usually do is something like:
 - disklabel sd0 >x
 - edit x to suit your partition-needs
 - disklabel -R -r sd0 x


Hope this helps,

		Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>